a1.xlarge vs i3en.xlarge

Instance Typea1.xlargei3en.xlarge
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeStorage 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
NoSQL databases (like Cassandra, MongoDB, Redis), in-memory databases (such as Aerospike), scalable transactional databases, data warehousing, Elasticsearch, and analytics tasks.

i – IOPS / storage optimized
3 – Generation
e – Extra storage or memory
n – Network and EBS optimized
xlarge – Size
vCPUs44
Memory8 GiB32 GiB
CPU Architecturearm64x86_64
ProcessorAWS Graviton ProcessorIntel Xeon Platinum 8175
Clock Speed2.3 GHz3.1 GHz
Threads Per Core12
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesa1.2xlarge, a1.4xlarge, a1.large, a1.medium, a1.metal, a1.xlargei3en.12xlarge, i3en.24xlarge, i3en.2xlarge, i3en.3xlarge, i3en.6xlarge, i3en.large, i3en.metal, i3en.xlarge
Variantsi3.xlarge
SageMakerml.i3en.xlarge
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnoyes
Instance StorageEBS only1 x 2500 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughputup to 3500 MBpsup to 3500 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth800 Mbps1153 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput100 Mbps144.2 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 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 Diff1.00x4.65x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
a1.xlarge
i3en.xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)0.1020n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.10200.4740
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a0.5000
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)n/a0.5140
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)n/a0.5140
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)n/a0.5240
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)n/a0.5250
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)n/a0.5260
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a0.5260
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)n/a0.5320
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)n/a0.5320
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)n/a0.5320
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.11520.4750
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)n/a0.5400
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)n/a0.5420
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)n/a0.5420
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)n/a0.5420
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)n/a0.5420
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)n/a0.5460
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)n/a0.5460
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)n/a0.5480
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)n/a0.5500
HiddenHidden (hidden-29)n/a0.5690
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.11640.4790
HiddenHidden (hidden-30)n/a0.5940
HiddenHidden (hidden-31)n/a0.5940
HiddenHidden (hidden-32)n/a0.5970
HiddenHidden (hidden-33)n/a0.7200
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.11760.4880
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.12840.4880
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.13320.5000
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a0.5000
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a0.5000
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a0.5000
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.10200.4520
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.10200.4520
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a0.4520
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