a1.xlarge · EC2 Prices

a Arm, Graviton1

1 Generation 1

xlarge 4 vCPU · 8 GiB

$53.00/mo

1-yr reserved in Ireland

On-demand 1-yr 3-yr

4 vCPU

Graviton, 2.3 GHz

8 GiB

2 GiB per vCPU

EBS only

Local storage

Up to 10 Gbps

Network bandwidth

Up to 3.5 Gbps

EBS bandwidth

arm64

Architecture

Every way to pay

Prices in Ireland. Bars are relative to on-demand.

Plan	Monthly	Yearly	Saves
On-demand Pay by the second, no commitment	$84.10	$1,009
Reserved, 1 yr No upfront, this size and region	$53.00	$636	−37%
Reserved, 3 yr No upfront, this size and region	$36.35	$436	−57%

Plan

Monthly

Yearly

Saves

On-demand

Pay by the second, no commitment

$84.10

$1,009

Reserved, 1 yr

No upfront, this size and region

$53.00

$636

−37%

Reserved, 3 yr

No upfront, this size and region

$36.35

$436

−57%

What will it cost me?

Enter how you plan to run it.

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× a1.xlarge, on-demand

/mo

a year

You run these most of the time. A 1-year reservation bills every hour, and would still cost /mo.

Same usage on each plan	Monthly	Yearly
On-demand
Reserved 1 yr
Reserved 3 yr

Reservations bill every hour of the month, whether the instance runs or not.

Other sizes in this family

Price roughly doubles with each step. Pick a size to open it.

$13 medium $26 large $53 xl $106 2xl $212 4xl $212 metal

Price in every region

Cheapest in Asia Pacific (Mumbai). Moving from Ireland would save $73 a year per instance.

Asia Pacific (Mumbai) ap-south-1$46.94 −11%US East (N. Virginia) us-east-1$46.94 −11%US East (Ohio) us-east-2$46.94 −11%US West (Oregon) us-west-2$46.94 −11%Europe (Ireland) eu-west-1$53.00 base

Europe (Frankfurt) eu-central-1$53.51 +1%Asia Pacific (Singapore) ap-southeast-1$54.09 +2%Asia Pacific (Tokyo) ap-northeast-1$59.06 +11%Asia Pacific (Sydney) ap-southeast-2$61.25 +16%

Not offered in N. California , Central , Calgary , Central , São Paulo , US-East , US-West , London , Paris , Zurich , Stockholm , Milan , Spain , Hyderabad , Jakarta , Melbourne , Malaysia , New Zealand , Thailand , Seoul , Osaka , Hong Kong , Taipei , UAE , Bahrain , Tel Aviv , Cape Town .

Same shape, other families

Every instance with 4 vCPU · 8 GiB in Ireland, ranked by price.

Instance	Processor	Generation	Local disk	Price/mo	vs a1.xlarge
a1.xlarge	Graviton	Previous	EBS only	$53.00	—
c6g.xlarge	Graviton2	Gen 6	EBS only	$70.52	+33%
c7g.xlarge	Graviton3	Gen 7	EBS only	$74.90	+41%
c5a.xlarge	EPYC Rome	Gen 5	EBS only	$78.84	+49%
c6a.xlarge	EPYC Milan	Gen 6	EBS only	$79.33	+50%
c6gd.xlarge	Graviton2	Gen 6	237 GB NVMe	$80.23	+51%
c8g.xlarge	Graviton4	Gen 8	EBS only	$82.42	+56%
c7i-flex.xlarge	Xeon Sapphire Rapids	Gen 7	EBS only	$87.91	+66%
c6i.xlarge	Xeon Ice Lake	Gen 6	EBS only	$88.15	+66%
c5.xlarge	Xeon Skylake	Newest	EBS only	$88.33	+67%
c6gn.xlarge	Graviton2	Gen 6	EBS only	$89.64	+69%
c5ad.xlarge	EPYC Rome	Gen 5	150 GB NVMe	$89.79	+69%
c7i.xlarge	Xeon Sapphire Rapids	Gen 7	EBS only	$92.56	+75%
c7gd.xlarge	Graviton3	Gen 7	237 GB NVMe	$94.75	+79%
c5d.xlarge	Xeon Skylake	Gen 5	100 GB NVMe	$100	+89%
c6id.xlarge	Xeon Ice Lake	Gen 6	237 GB NVMe	$105	+99%
c7a.xlarge	EPYC Genoa	Gen 7	EBS only	$106	+101%
c6in.xlarge	Xeon Ice Lake	Gen 6	EBS only	$118	+122%
c7gn.xlarge	Graviton3	Gen 7	EBS only	$129	+144%

Specifications

API name: a1.xlarge
Processor: AWS Graviton Processor
Local storage: EBS only
Family: General purpose
Clock speed: 2.3 GHz
Network: Up to 10 Gbps
Generation: Previous
Architecture: arm64
EBS bandwidth: Up to 3.5 Gbps
vCPUs: 4
Memory: 8 GiB
GPUs: None