Amazon EC2 Instance Type a1.medium

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance type a1.medium with 1 vCPU and 2 GiB memory. Available in 9 Amazon Web Services (AWS) locations.

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Amazon EC2 Instance Type a1.medium

Technical facts about the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance type a1.medium.

Instance Type a1.medium
Instance Family and Generation A1
Instance Family Name General purpose
Current Generation no
Bare Metal no
Supported Usage Classes on-demand, spot
Supported Virtualization Types hvm
Hypervisor nitro
CPU Manufacturer AWS
CPU Platform AWS Graviton Processor
Architectures arm64
Clock Speed 2.3
vCPUs 1
Cores 1
Threads per Core 1
Burstable Performance Supported no
Memory Size 2
Network Performance Up to 10 Gigabit
Maximum Network Interfaces 2
Maximum Network Cards 1
IPv4 Addresses per Interface 4
IPv6 Addresses per Interface 4
IPv6 Supported yes
Elastic Network Adapter (ENA) Supported required
ENA Express powered by AWS Scalable Reliable Datagram (SRD) Supported no
Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) Supported no
Network Encryption in Transit Supported no
Storage EBS only
Supported Root Device Types ebs
Instance Store Supported no
Instance Store Total Size -
Instance Store NVME Support no
Instance Store Encryption Support no
EBS Optimized Support default
EBS Optimized Baseline Bandwidth in Mbps 300
EBS Optimized Maximum Bandwidth in Mbps 3500
EBS Optimized Baseline Throughput in MBps 37.5
EBS Optimized Maximum Throughput in MBps 437.5
EBS Optimized Baseline IOPS 2500
EBS Optimized Maximum IOPS 20000
EBS Encryption Support supported
EBS NVME Support required
GPU Manufacturer -
GPU Name -
GPUs -
GPU Total Memory -
Placement Group Supported Strategies cluster, partition, spread
Hibernation Supported no
Dedicated Hosts Supported yes
Auto Recovery Supported yes
Supported Boot Modes uefi
Nitro Enclaves Support unsupported
Nitro TPM Support unsupported
SAP Supported no
SAP HANA Supported no
SAP Standard Benchmark (SAPS) -

Costs (Pricing) for a1.medium

Cost and pricing across all AWS locations for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance type a1.medium with free operating system.

Price per Hour

Min. Avg. Max.
On-Demand 0.0255 0.0283 0.0333
Spot Instance 0.0247 0.0282 0.0333

Price per Month

Min. Avg. Max.
On-Demand Instance 18.61 20.66 24.31
Spot Instance 18.03 20.59 24.31
Reserved Instance one-year term no upfront 11.75 13.02 15.33
Reserved Instance one-year term partial upfront 11.2 12.4 14.63
Reserved Instance one-year term all upfront 10.92 12.13 14.33
Reserved Instance three-year term no upfront 8.03 8.92 10.51
Reserved Instance three-year term partial upfront 7.45 8.27 9.75
Reserved Instance three-year term all upfront 7 7.77 9.14
Convertible Reserved Instance one-year term no upfront 13.5 15.85 19.49
Convertible Reserved Instance one-year term partial upfront 12.84 15.09 18.52
Convertible Reserved Instance one-year term all upfront 12.58 14.8 18.17
Convertible Reserved Instance three-year term no upfront 9.27 11.21 14.16
Convertible Reserved Instance three-year term partial upfront 8.58 10.39 13.13
Convertible Reserved Instance three-year term all upfront 8.39 10.17 12.89

Price per Location

Costs and pricing for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance type a1.medium in AWS locations in which the instance type is available.

Location Costs per Hour Costs per Month
Code Name Continent Type On-Demand Spot On-Demand Spot 1Y RI (No) 1Y RI (All) 3Y RI (No) 3Y RI (All)
ap-south-1 Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Asia Pacific Region 0.0255 0.0255 18.61 18.61 11.75 10.92 8.03 7
us-east-1 US East (N. Virginia) North America Region 0.0255 0.0247 18.61 18.03 11.75 10.92 8.03 7
us-east-2 US East (Ohio) North America Region 0.0255 0.0255 18.61 18.61 11.75 10.92 8.03 7
us-west-2 US West (Oregon) North America Region 0.0255 0.0255 18.61 18.61 11.75 10.92 8.03 7
eu-west-1 EU (Ireland) Europe Region 0.0288 0.0288 21.02 21.02 13.21 12.33 9.05 7.92
eu-central-1 EU (Frankfurt) Europe Region 0.0291 0.0291 21.24 21.24 13.36 12.5 9.2 8
ap-southeast-1 Asia Pacific (Singapore) Asia Pacific Region 0.0294 0.0294 21.46 21.46 13.5 12.58 9.27 8.08
ap-northeast-1 Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Asia Pacific Region 0.0321 0.0321 23.43 23.43 14.75 13.75 10.15 8.81
ap-southeast-2 Asia Pacific (Sydney) Asia Pacific Region 0.0333 0.0333 24.31 24.31 15.33 14.33 10.51 9.14