Amazon EC2 Instance Type a1.xlarge

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance type a1.xlarge with 4 vCPUs and 8 GiB memory. Available in 9 Amazon Web Services (AWS) locations.

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Amazon EC2 Instance Type a1.xlarge

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

Instance Type a1.xlarge
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 4
Cores 4
Threads per Core 1
Burstable Performance Supported no
Memory Size 8
Network Performance Up to 10 Gigabit
Maximum Network Interfaces 4
Maximum Network Cards 1
IPv4 Addresses per Interface 15
IPv6 Addresses per Interface 15
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 800
EBS Optimized Maximum Bandwidth in Mbps 3500
EBS Optimized Baseline Throughput in MBps 100
EBS Optimized Maximum Throughput in MBps 437.5
EBS Optimized Baseline IOPS 6000
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.xlarge

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

Price per Hour

Min. Avg. Max.
On-Demand 0.102 0.1132 0.1332
Spot Instance 0.0292 0.0588 0.1332

Price per Month

Min. Avg. Max.
On-Demand Instance 74.46 82.64 97.24
Spot Instance 21.32 42.94 97.24
Reserved Instance one-year term no upfront 46.94 52.07 61.25
Reserved Instance one-year term partial upfront 44.67 49.58 58.37
Reserved Instance one-year term all upfront 43.75 48.57 57.17
Reserved Instance three-year term no upfront 32.19 35.71 41.98
Reserved Instance three-year term partial upfront 29.78 33.05 38.86
Reserved Instance three-year term all upfront 28 31.07 36.56
Convertible Reserved Instance one-year term no upfront 53.95 63.4 77.89
Convertible Reserved Instance one-year term partial upfront 51.36 60.37 74.17
Convertible Reserved Instance one-year term all upfront 50.33 59.17 72.67
Convertible Reserved Instance three-year term no upfront 37.01 44.83 56.79
Convertible Reserved Instance three-year term partial upfront 34.29 41.51 52.56
Convertible Reserved Instance three-year term all upfront 33.56 40.66 51.5

Price per Location

Costs and pricing for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance type a1.xlarge 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 0.102 0.102 74.46 74.46 46.94 43.75 32.19 28
us-east-1 US East (N. Virginia) North America Region 0.102 0.0504 74.46 36.79 46.94 43.75 32.19 28
us-east-2 US East (Ohio) North America Region 0.102 0.0375 74.46 27.38 46.94 43.75 32.19 28
us-west-2 US West (Oregon) North America Region 0.102 0.0292 74.46 21.32 46.94 43.75 32.19 28
eu-west-1 EU (Ireland) Europe Region 0.1152 0.0486 84.1 35.48 53 49.42 36.35 31.61
eu-central-1 EU (Frankfurt) Europe Region 0.1164 0.0437 84.97 31.9 53.51 50 36.72 31.94
ap-southeast-1 Asia Pacific (Singapore) Asia Pacific Region 0.1176 0.0361 85.85 26.35 54.09 50.5 37.08 32.28
ap-northeast-1 Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Asia Pacific Region 0.1284 0.0487 93.73 35.55 59.06 55.08 40.52 35.25
ap-southeast-2 Asia Pacific (Sydney) Asia Pacific Region 0.1332 0.1332 97.24 97.24 61.25 57.17 41.98 36.56