InstanceFinder / AWS / a1.medium
a1.medium
EC2 instance type · 1 vCPU · 2 GiB RAM · arm64
On-demand
$0.0255/hr
Monthly
$18.61/mo
vCPU
1
Memory
2 GiB
The a1.medium is an EC2 instance type with 1 vCPUs and 2 GiB of memory (2 GiB per vCPU), on the arm64 architecture. On-demand pricing starts at $0.0255/hr ($18.61/mo) in us-east-1. It is available in 9 AWS region(s). Not affiliated with AWS.
Pricing — on-demand, us-east-1
| Hourly (USD) | $0.0255 |
|---|---|
| Monthly (USD, 730 h) | $18.61 |
| Per vCPU-hour (USD) | $0.0255 |
| Per GiB-hour (USD) | $0.0127 |
Full specification
| Family | a1 |
|---|---|
| Size | medium |
| Generation | 1 |
| Current Generation | No |
| Bare Metal | No |
| Hypervisor | nitro |
| Free Tier | No |
| Burstable | No |
| Dedicated Hosts | Yes |
| Auto Recovery | Yes |
| Hibernation | No |
| Supported Usage | on-demand, spot |
| Spot Supported | Yes |
| Boot Modes | uefi |
| Virt Types | hvm |
| Root Device Types | ebs |
| Nitro Enclaves | No |
| Nitro Tpm | No |
| Vcpu | 1 |
| Cores | 1 |
| Threads Per Core | 1 |
| Arch | arm64 |
| Clock Ghz | 2.3 |
| Processor | AWS |
| Amd Sev | No |
| Memory Gi B | 2 |
| Net Perf Text | Up to 10 Gigabit |
| Net Peak Gbps | 10 |
| Net Base Gbps | 0.5 |
| Net Burstable | Yes |
| Net Cards | 1 |
| Max Eni | 2 |
| Ipv4 Per Eni | 4 |
| Ipv6 Per Eni | 4 |
| Ena | required |
| Ena Express | No |
| Efa | No |
| Encryption In Transit | No |
| Ebs Optimized | default |
| Ebs Encryption | supported |
| Ebs Nvme | required |
| Ebs Base Gbps | 0.3 |
| Ebs Peak Gbps | 3.5 |
| Ebs Base Iops | 2500 |
| Ebs Peak Iops | 20000 |
| Ebs Base M Bps | 37.5 |
| Ebs Peak M Bps | 437.5 |
| Placement Strategies | cluster, partition, spread |
| Phc Support | No |
| Ipv6 Supported | Yes |
| Instance Storage Supported | No |
| Mem Per Vcpu Gi B | 2 |
| Regions | ap-northeast-1, ap-south-1, ap-southeast-1, ap-southeast-2, eu-central-1, eu-west-1, us-east-1, us-east-2, us-west-2 |
| Region Count | 9 |
On-demand price shown for us-east-1, USD, refreshed 2026-07-23T21:04:02+00:00. Prices and availability vary by region and OS — use the interactive table for the rest.