a1.large

The a1.large instance is in the General purpose family with 2 vCPUs, 4 GiB of memory and up to 10 Gibps of bandwidth starting at $0.051 per hour.

Pricing

$0.051

On Demand

$0.05

Spot

$0.032

1-Year Reserved

$0.022

3-Year Reserved

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Family Sizes

SizevCPUsMemory (GiB)
a1.medium12
a1.large24
a1.xlarge48
a1.2xlarge816
a1.4xlarge1632
a1.metal1632

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Instance Variants

Variant
a1

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Instance Details

ComputeValue
vCPUs2
Memory (GiB)4
Memory per vCPU (GiB)2
Physical ProcessorAWS Graviton Processor
Clock Speed (GHz)2.3 GHz
CPU Architecturearm64
GPU
0
GPU Architecture
none
Video Memory (GiB)0
GPU Compute Capability ?0
FPGA
0
NetworkingValue
Network Performance (Gibps)up to 10
Enhanced Networking
false
IPv6
true
Placement Group ?
StorageValue
EBS Optimized
true
Max Bandwidth (Mbps) on EBS3500
Max Throughput (MB/s) on EBS437.5
Max I/O operations/second IOPS20000
Baseline Bandwidth (Mbps) on EBS525
Baseline Throughput (MB/s) on EBS65.625
Baseline I/O operations/second IOPS4000
Devices0
Swap Partition
false
NVME Drive ?
false
Disk Space (GiB)0
SSD
false
Initialize Storage
false
AmazonValue
Generation
previous
Instance Typea1.large
FamilyGeneral purpose
NameA1 Large
Elastic Map Reduce EMR
false
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