a1.xlarge vs g3s.xlarge
| a1.xlarge | g3s.xlarge |
| General purpose | GPU instance |
| Obsolete. 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 | Machine Learning (ML), 3D visualizations, graphics-heavy remote workstations, 3D rendering, application streaming, video encoding, and server-side graphics tasks. g – GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) 3 – Generation xlarge – Size |
| 4 | 4 |
| 8 GiB | 30.5 GiB |
| arm64 | n/a |
| AWS Graviton Processor | Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell) |
| 2.3 GHz | |
| 1 | 0 |
| no | no |
| 1 | |
| no | no |
| 8 GiB | |
| no | no |
| a1.2xlarge, a1.4xlarge, a1.large, a1.medium, a1.metal, a1.xlarge | g3s.xlarge |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| 13 | |
| EBS only | EBS only |
| default | |
| supported | |
| required | |
| up to 3500 MBps | 100 MBps |
| 800 Mbps | |
| 100 Mbps | |
| 6000 IOPS | |
| 20000 IOPS | |
| 3500 Mbps | |
| 437.5 Mbps | |
| Up to 10 Gigabit | 10 Gigabit |
| yes | yes |
| 4 | |
| 1 | |
| 15 | |
| 15 | |
| yes | no |
| required | |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| 1.00x | 7.88x |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | a1.xlarge | g3s.xlarge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Asia Pacific | Asia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1) | 0.1020 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | 0.1020 | 0.7960 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | 0.1152 | 0.8680 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | 0.1164 | 0.9340 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-4) | 0.1176 | 0.9380 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-5) | 0.1284 | 0.9400 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-6) | 0.1332 | 1.0400 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-7) | n/a | 1.1540 |
| US | US East (Ohio) (us-east-2) | 0.1020 | 0.7500 |
| US | US East (Virginia) (us-east-1) | 0.1020 | 0.7500 |
| US | US West (Oregon) (us-west-2) | n/a | 0.7500 |