a1.xlarge vs m6idn.xlarge
| a1.xlarge | m6idn.xlarge |
| General purpose | General purpose |
| 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 | Small to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends. m – Multi purpose 6 – Generation i – Intel processor d – Instance store volume n – Network and EBS optimized xlarge – Size |
| 4 | 4 |
| 8 GiB | 16 GiB |
| arm64 | x86_64 |
| AWS Graviton Processor | Intel Xeon 8375C (Ice Lake) |
| 2.3 GHz | 3.5 GHz |
| 1 | 2 |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| a1.2xlarge, a1.4xlarge, a1.large, a1.medium, a1.metal, a1.xlarge | m6idn.12xlarge, m6idn.16xlarge, m6idn.24xlarge, m6idn.2xlarge, m6idn.32xlarge, m6idn.4xlarge, m6idn.8xlarge, m6idn.large, m6idn.metal, m6idn.xlarge |
| m6idn.xlarge, m8idn.xlarge | |
| m6a.xlarge, m6g.xlarge, m6gd.xlarge, m6i.xlarge, m6id.xlarge, m6in.xlarge | |
| db.m6idn.xlarge | |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | yes |
| EBS only | 1 x 237 NVMe SSD |
| default | default |
| supported | supported |
| required | required |
| up to 3500 MBps | up to 25000 MBps |
| 800 Mbps | 3125 Mbps |
| 100 Mbps | 390.625 Mbps |
| 6000 IOPS | 12500 IOPS |
| 20000 IOPS | 100000 IOPS |
| 3500 Mbps | 25000 Mbps |
| 437.5 Mbps | 3125 Mbps |
| Up to 10 Gigabit | Up to 30000 Megabit |
| yes | yes |
| 4 | 4 |
| 1 | 1 |
| 15 | 15 |
| 15 | 15 |
| yes | yes |
| required | required |
| no | no |
| no | yes |
| no | no |
| 1.00x | 3.22x |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | a1.xlarge | m6idn.xlarge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Asia Pacific | Asia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1) | 0.1020 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | 0.1020 | 0.3320 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-10) | n/a | 0.3908 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-11) | n/a | 0.4001 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-12) | n/a | 0.4025 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-13) | n/a | 0.4095 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-14) | n/a | 0.4131 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | 0.1152 | 0.3393 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | 0.1164 | 0.3484 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-4) | 0.1176 | 0.3484 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-5) | 0.1284 | 0.3557 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-6) | 0.1332 | 0.3620 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-7) | n/a | 0.3669 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-8) | n/a | 0.3791 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-9) | n/a | 0.3861 |
| US | US East (Ohio) (us-east-2) | 0.1020 | 0.3182 |
| US | US East (Virginia) (us-east-1) | 0.1020 | 0.3182 |
| US | US West (Oregon) (us-west-2) | n/a | 0.3182 |