a1.xlarge vs c7gd.xlarge

Instance Typea1.xlargec7gd.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
d – Instance store volume
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.xlargec7gd.12xlarge, c7gd.16xlarge, c7gd.2xlarge, c7gd.4xlarge, c7gd.8xlarge, c7gd.large, c7gd.medium, c7gd.metal, c7gd.xlarge
Generationsc6gd.xlarge, c7gd.xlarge, c8gd.xlarge, c9gd.xlarge
Variantsc7a.xlarge, c7g.xlarge, c7gn.xlarge, c7i-flex.xlarge, c7i.xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnoyes
Instance StorageEBS only1 x 237 NVMe SSD
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 Diff1.00x1.84x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
a1.xlarge
c7gd.xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Malaysia) (ap-southeast-5)n/a0.1799
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)0.10200.1152
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.10200.1814
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a0.2117
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)n/a0.2174
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)n/a0.2174
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)n/a0.2192
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)n/a0.2192
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)n/a0.2268
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a0.2306
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)n/a0.2306
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)n/a0.2308
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)n/a0.2382
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.11520.1814
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)n/a0.2816
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.11640.1966
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.11760.2003
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.12840.2060
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.13320.2060
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a0.2079
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a0.2098
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a0.2117
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.1020n/a
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.10200.1814
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