a1.xlarge vs c6g.xlarge

Instance Typea1.xlargec6g.xlarge
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeCompute optimized
DetailsObsolete. Not recommended for use
Web servers, containerized microservices, caching fleets, distributed data stores, and dev environments.

a – ARM AWS Graviton Processor
1 – Generation
xlarge – Size
High-performance web servers, scientific modeling, batch processing, distributed analytics, HPC, machine/deep learning inference, ad serving, scalable multiplayer gaming, and video encoding.

c – Compute optimized
6 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
xlarge – Size
vCPUs44
Memory8 GiB8 GiB
CPU Architecturearm64arm64
ProcessorAWS Graviton ProcessorAWS Graviton2 Processor
Clock Speed2.3 GHz2.5 GHz
Threads Per Core11
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesa1.2xlarge, a1.4xlarge, a1.large, a1.medium, a1.metal, a1.xlargec6g.12xlarge, c6g.16xlarge, c6g.2xlarge, c6g.4xlarge, c6g.8xlarge, c6g.large, c6g.medium, c6g.metal, c6g.xlarge
Generationsc6g.xlarge, c7g.xlarge, c8g.xlarge, c9g.xlarge
Variantsc6a.xlarge, c6gd.xlarge, c6gn.xlarge, c6i.xlarge, c6id.xlarge, c6in.xlarge
SageMakerml.c6g.xlarge
OpenSearchc6g.xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnoyes
Instance StorageEBS onlyEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughputup to 3500 MBpsup to 4500 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth800 Mbps1188 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput100 Mbps148.5 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance6000 IOPS6000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance20000 IOPS20000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth3500 Mbps4750 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput437.5 Mbps593.75 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 GigabitUp to 10 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces44
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnono
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.37x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
a1.xlarge
c6g.xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Hyderabad) (ap-south-2)n/a0.0852
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Malaysia) (ap-southeast-5)n/a0.1333
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)0.10200.0852
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.10200.1333
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a0.1488
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)n/a0.1532
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)n/a0.1540
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)n/a0.1541
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)n/a0.1552
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)n/a0.1568
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a0.1568
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)n/a0.1605
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)n/a0.1616
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)n/a0.1616
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.11520.1360
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)n/a0.1620
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)n/a0.1632
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)n/a0.1632
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)n/a0.1696
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)n/a0.1700
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)n/a0.1707
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)n/a0.1712
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)n/a0.1720
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)n/a0.1720
HiddenHidden (hidden-29)n/a0.1776
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.11640.1360
HiddenHidden (hidden-30)n/a0.1776
HiddenHidden (hidden-31)n/a0.1824
HiddenHidden (hidden-32)n/a0.1865
HiddenHidden (hidden-33)n/a0.2096
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.11760.1360
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.12840.1428
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.13320.1459
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a0.1459
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a0.1460
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a0.1488
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.1020n/a
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.1020n/a
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