a1.xlarge vs c6gn.xlarge

Instance Typea1.xlargec6gn.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
n – Network and EBS optimized
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.xlargec6gn.12xlarge, c6gn.16xlarge, c6gn.2xlarge, c6gn.4xlarge, c6gn.8xlarge, c6gn.large, c6gn.medium, c6gn.metal, c6gn.xlarge
Generationsc6gn.xlarge, c7gn.xlarge, c8gn.xlarge
Variantsc6a.xlarge, c6g.xlarge, c6gd.xlarge, c6i.xlarge, c6id.xlarge, c6in.xlarge
SageMakerml.c6gn.xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnoyes
Instance StorageEBS onlyEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughputup to 3500 MBpsup to 9500 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth800 Mbps2375 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput100 Mbps296.88 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance6000 IOPS10000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance20000 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth3500 Mbps9500 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput437.5 Mbps1187.5 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 GigabitUp to 25 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingyesyes
Max Interfaces44
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Addresses per Interface1515
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredrequired
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnoyes
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x1.77x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
a1.xlarge
c6gn.xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Malaysia) (ap-southeast-5)n/a0.1683
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)0.1020n/a
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Thailand) (ap-southeast-7)n/a0.1683
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.10200.1728
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a0.1962
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)n/a0.1972
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)n/a0.1980
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)n/a0.1984
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)n/a0.2050
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)n/a0.2050
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a0.2050
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)n/a0.2064
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)n/a0.2080
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)n/a0.2080
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.11520.1728
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)n/a0.2144
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)n/a0.2160
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)n/a0.2180
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)n/a0.2184
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)n/a0.2260
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)n/a0.2290
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)n/a0.2373
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)n/a0.2660
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.11640.1730
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.11760.1814
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.12840.1860
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.13320.1892
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a0.1892
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a0.1950
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a0.1952
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.1020n/a
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.10200.1728
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