A1 General Purpose

Balanced compute, memory, and networking for a wide range of workloads.

Name:aGeneral Purpose (1st Gen Graviton)a = General Purpose (1st Gen Graviton)First-generation ARM-based AWS Graviton processor instances for scale-out web applications.11st Generation1 = 1st GenerationAWS 1st generation hardware platform with updated CPU/system architecture.

Common use cases

  • Web servers
  • Application servers
  • Small-to-medium databases
  • Development environments

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The complete journey of AWS custom ARM silicon from experimental A1 to Graviton4

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Instance types (5)

InstancevCPUMemoryArchitectureFrom (Linux, $/hr)
a1.medium12 GBarm64$0.0255
a1.large24 GBarm64$0.0510
a1.xlarge48 GBarm64$0.1020
a1.2xlarge816 GBarm64$0.2040
a1.4xlarge1632 GBarm64$0.4080