On-Demand
$18.61/mo
Reserved - 1 Year
$10.92/mo
vCPUs
1
Memory
2 GiB

a1 Family

Previous generation General purpose
a1.medium
1 vCPU2 GiB
$18.6150
/mo
a1.large
2 vCPU4 GiB
$37.2300
/mo
a1.xlarge
4 vCPU8 GiB
$74.4600
/mo
a1.2xlarge
8 vCPU16 GiB
$148.9200
/mo
a1.4xlarge
16 vCPU32 GiB
$297.8400
/mo
a1.metal
16 vCPU32 GiB
$297.8400
/mo
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a1.medium

Updated: April 14, 2026
The a1.medium instance is in the A1 Previous generation General purpose family with 1 vCPUs and 2 GiB of memory, pricing starts at $0.0255 per hour and $18.6150 per month in us-east-1 region.
Configuration & Pricing
Pricing
Monthly Cost
$18.6150 / month
Hourly Cost
$0.0255 / hour
Reserved (1 yr)
$10.9167 / month
Reserved (3 yr)
$7.0000 / month
Compute
Name
A1 Medium
Series
A1
Compute Family
General purpose
Generation
previous
vCPUs
1
Instance Memory
2 GiB
GiB of Memory per vCPU
2.00 GiB/vCPU
Clock Speed(GHz)
2.3 GHz
Physical Processor
AWS Graviton Processor
CPU Architecture
arm64
GPUs
0
CoreMark Score
11,877.895
Networking
Network Performance
Up to 10 Gigabit
Max IPs
8
Enhanced Networking
No
IPv6 Support
Yes
Storage
Instance Storage
EBS only
EBS Optimized
true
Max Bandwidth (Mbps) on EBS
3500 Mbps
Max Throughput (Mbps) on EBS
437.5 MB/s
Max IOPS on EBS
20000 IOPS
Baseline Bandwidth (Mbps) on EBS
300 Mbps
Baseline Throughput (Mbps) on EBS
37.5 MB/s
Baseline IOPS on EBS
2500 IOPS

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