AWS Amazon EC2

is4gen.medium

Part of the IS4GEN Storage Optimized family — High, sequential read/write access to large local datasets.

Name:isStorage Optimized (Dense NVMe)44th GenerationgAWS GravitoneExtra Capacity / ExpansionnEnhanced NetworkingmediumMedium

On-demand, Linux

$0.1441/ hr

~$105.18/mo · lowest in US East (N. Virginia), us-east-1

Savings Plan, Linux

$0.07518/ hr

From, with a 3-year Compute Savings Plan, No Upfront: −48% vs on-demand rate (us-east-1)

Per unit

$0.1441/ vCPU-hr

$0.0240/GB-hr

Compute

1vCPUs

1 cores • arm64

Memory

6GB

6.0 GB / vCPU

Network

Up to 25 Gbps

Baseline: 1.562 Gbps

Storage & EBS

1,250MB/s

Max: 40,000 IOPS

On Google Cloud

The nearest Google Cloud machines to is4gen.medium by vCPU and memory, at On-demand Linux rates in Northern Virginia (us-east-1 ↔ us-east4).

Machine	Size	On-demand Linux	vs is4gen.medium
is4gen.mediumThis page · AWS, us-east-1	1 vCPU · 6 GiB	$0.14408/hr	—
n4a-highmem-11 vCPU and 8 GiB for 1 vCPU and 6 GiB, the nearest size up; Arm on both; local disk on is4gen.medium only	1 vCPU · 8 GiB	$0.05054/hr	65% less
c4a-highmem-11 vCPU and 8 GiB for 1 vCPU and 6 GiB, the nearest size up; Arm on both; local disk on is4gen.medium only	1 vCPU · 8 GiB	$0.05894/hr	59% less
n4a-standard-22 vCPU and 8 GiB for 1 vCPU and 6 GiB, the nearest size up; Arm on both; 1 physical cores vs 2; local disk on is4gen.medium only	2 vCPU · 8 GiB	$0.0770/hr	47% less

Matched on vCPU and memory, then CPU vendor, then rate; a larger size is offered only when nothing is the same size. On-demand Linux only: Spot and commitments work differently on the two clouds, so they aren't compared here.

Technical Specifications & Limits

Hardware specs, container thresholds, and system limits

Compute & Processor

ProcessorAWS Graviton2 Processor

Architecturearm64 (ARM64 (Graviton))

vCPUs / Threads1 vCPUs

Physical Cores1

Clock Speed2.5 GHz

Intel AVX / AVX2No

Intel Turbo BoostNo

Bare MetalNo (Virtualized)

Performance & Benchmarks

CoreMark Score19,781

CoreMark / vCPU19,781.1 / core

FFmpeg Transcoding7 FPS

CoreMark per Dollar137,292 score / $

Cost per vCPU-hr$0.1441

Cost per GB-hr$0.0240

Containers & Kubernetes

EKS Max Pods8 pods

Max ENIs2

IPv4/v6 per ENI4

Total Addressable IPs8 total IPs

CNI Prefix DelegationSupported (High Density)

Networking & Bandwidth

Network PerformanceUp to 25 Gbps

Baseline Bandwidth1.562 Gbps

Burst / Peak Bandwidth25 Gbps

Enhanced NetworkingYes

EFA SupportNo

IPv6 SupportNative Dual-Stack Supported

Storage & EBS Optimization

Storage ConfigurationSSD (937 GB)

Local NVMe Disk937 GB SSD

EBS Baseline Throughput78.125 MB/s

EBS Max Throughput1250 MB/s

EBS Baseline IOPS2,500

EBS Max / Burst IOPS40,000

Dedicated EBS ThroughputUp to 9500 Mbps

Platform & Architecture Details

Hypervisor / SystemAWS Nitro System (PCIe Offload)

Nitro EnclavesNot Supported

Normalization Factor2

Generation StatusCurrent Generation (Recommended)

Rates by region

Live on-demand rates across all global AWS cloud regions

Lowest Price Region

$0.1441/ hr

US East (N. Virginia) (us-east-1)

Highest Price Region

$0.1728/ hr

Asia Pacific (Singapore) (ap-southeast-1)

Global Fleet Average

$0.1614/ hr

Across all active regions

Regional Coverage

12regions

Available worldwide

Linux — Available in all 12 regions
Region	On-Demand Price	% vs On-Demand Rate
ap-south-1 Asia Pacific (Mumbai)	$0.1638
ap-southeast-1 Asia Pacific (Singapore) Highest	$0.1728
ap-southeast-2 Asia Pacific (Sydney) Highest	$0.1728
ap-northeast-1 Asia Pacific (Tokyo)	$0.1696
ca-central-1 Canada (Central)	$0.1594
eu-central-1 EU (Frankfurt)	$0.1721
eu-west-1 EU (Ireland)	$0.1594
eu-west-2 EU (London)	$0.1677
eu-west-3 EU (Paris)	$0.1677
us-east-1 US East (N. Virginia) Lowest	$0.1441
us-east-2 US East (Ohio) Lowest	$0.1441
us-west-2 US West (Oregon) Lowest	$0.1441

Savings Plans: what to know

A Savings Plan commits you to a dollar amount per hour of spend for one or three years, not to an instance: usage up to that amount is billed at the plan's rates and the rest at on-demand, and unused commitment is still billed.
A Compute Savings Plan follows your usage across instance families, sizes, regions and operating systems; an EC2 Instance Savings Plan is locked to one family in one region in exchange for a lower rate (what that flexibility costs).
In US East (N. Virginia) (us-east-1), the 3-year Compute Savings Plan rate (No Upfront) for is4gen.medium on Linux is 52% of the on-demand rate, so the instance has to run at least 52% of the hours for the commitment to cost less than on-demand.
Rates are AWS's effective hourly rate for each payment option; All Upfront pays the whole term's commitment at purchase, which is why its hourly rate is lower; Partial Upfront (at least half up front) isn't shown on this page. The Savings Plans calculator has all three and sizes a commitment for this instance or a mix of them. How AWS applies a plan each hour: how Compute Savings Plans decide what they cover. Sizing one for elastic workloads: managing Compute Savings Plans.