a1.xlarge vs c7g.xlarge

Instance Typea1.xlargec7g.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
7 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
xlarge – Size
vCPUs44
Memory8 GiB8 GiB
CPU Architecturearm64arm64
ProcessorAWS Graviton ProcessorAWS Graviton3 Processor
Clock Speed2.3 GHz2.6 GHz
Threads Per Core11
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesa1.2xlarge, a1.4xlarge, a1.large, a1.medium, a1.metal, a1.xlargec7g.12xlarge, c7g.16xlarge, c7g.2xlarge, c7g.4xlarge, c7g.8xlarge, c7g.large, c7g.medium, c7g.metal, c7g.xlarge
Generationsc6g.xlarge, c7g.xlarge, c8g.xlarge, c9g.xlarge
Variantsc7a.xlarge, c7gd.xlarge, c7gn.xlarge, c7i-flex.xlarge, c7i.xlarge
SageMakerml.c7g.xlarge
OpenSearchc7g.xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnoyes
Instance StorageEBS onlyEBS only
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughputup to 3500 MBpsup to 10000 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth800 Mbps1250 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput100 Mbps156.25039999999998 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance6000 IOPS6000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance20000 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth3500 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput437.5 Mbps1250 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 10 GigabitUp to 12500 Megabit
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 Diff1.00x1.45x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
a1.xlarge
c7g.xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Hyderabad) (ap-south-2)n/a0.0982
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Malaysia) (ap-southeast-5)n/a0.1416
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)0.10200.0982
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.10200.1416
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a0.1581
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)n/a0.1628
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)n/a0.1632
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)n/a0.1637
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)n/a0.1649
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)n/a0.1666
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a0.1666
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)n/a0.1713
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)n/a0.1717
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)n/a0.1717
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.11520.1445
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)n/a0.1734
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)n/a0.1734
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)n/a0.1795
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)n/a0.1802
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)n/a0.1814
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)n/a0.1819
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)n/a0.1819
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)n/a0.1820
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)n/a0.1887
HiddenHidden (hidden-29)n/a0.1938
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.11640.1450
HiddenHidden (hidden-30)n/a0.1982
HiddenHidden (hidden-31)n/a0.2222
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.11760.1450
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.12840.1522
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.13320.1547
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a0.1550
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a0.1550
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a0.1581
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.1020n/a
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.1020n/a
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