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a1.xlarge vs im4gn.xlarge

Instance Typea1.xlargeim4gn.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.

im – IOPS / storage optimized with a one to four ratio of vCPU to memory
4 – Generation
g – AWS Graviton processor
n – Network and EBS optimized
xlarge – Size
vCPUs44
Memory8 GiB16 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.xlargeim4gn.16xlarge, im4gn.2xlarge, im4gn.4xlarge, im4gn.8xlarge, im4gn.large, im4gn.xlarge
OpenSearchim4gn.xlarge.search
Free Tiernono
Burstablenono
Hibernationnoyes
Instance StorageEBS only1 x 1875 SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredrequired
Dedicated Throughputup to 3500 MBpsup to 9500 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth800 Mbps2500 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput100 Mbps312.5 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance6000 IOPS10000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance20000 IOPS40000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth3500 Mbps10000 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput437.5 Mbps1250 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 Diff1.00x3.60x

Regional Prices

Geography
Region
a1.xlarge
im4gn.xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)0.1020n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.10200.4011
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a0.4361
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)n/a0.4361
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.11520.4011
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.11640.4011
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.11760.4130
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.12840.4220
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.13320.4221
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a0.4221
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a0.4268
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a0.4338
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.10200.3638
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.10200.3638
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a0.3638
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