a1.xlarge vs m6i.xlarge

Instance Typea1.xlargem6i.xlarge
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeGeneral purpose
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
Small to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
6 – Generation
i – Intel processor
xlarge – Size
vCPUs44
Memory8 GiB16 GiB
CPU Architecturearm64x86_64
ProcessorAWS Graviton ProcessorIntel Xeon 8375C (Ice Lake)
Clock Speed2.3 GHz3.5 GHz
Threads Per Core12
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizesa1.2xlarge, a1.4xlarge, a1.large, a1.medium, a1.metal, a1.xlargem6i.12xlarge, m6i.16xlarge, m6i.24xlarge, m6i.2xlarge, m6i.32xlarge, m6i.4xlarge, m6i.8xlarge, m6i.large, m6i.metal, m6i.xlarge
Generationsm6i.xlarge, m7i.xlarge, m8i.xlarge
Variantsm6a.xlarge, m6g.xlarge, m6gd.xlarge, m6id.xlarge, m6idn.xlarge, m6in.xlarge
SageMakerml.m6i.xlarge
RDSdb.m6i.xlarge
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 Mbps156.25 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 Diff1.00x2.02x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
a1.xlarge
m6i.xlarge
Asia PacificAsia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)0.1020n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.10200.2016
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)n/a0.2220
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)n/a0.2232
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)n/a0.2240
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)n/a0.2240
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)n/a0.2240
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)n/a0.2247
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)n/a0.2300
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)n/a0.2354
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)n/a0.2360
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)n/a0.2400
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.11520.2020
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)n/a0.2400
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)n/a0.2400
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)n/a0.2420
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)n/a0.2420
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)n/a0.2480
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)n/a0.2480
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)n/a0.2520
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)n/a0.2530
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)n/a0.2540
HiddenHidden (hidden-29)n/a0.2640
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.11640.2020
HiddenHidden (hidden-30)n/a0.2640
HiddenHidden (hidden-31)n/a0.3060
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.11760.2040
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.12840.2040
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.13320.2040
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)n/a0.2140
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)n/a0.2140
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)n/a0.2140
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.10200.1920
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.10200.1920
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)n/a0.1920
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