a1.metal by Amazon Web Services

a1.metal is a AWS Graviton Gen1 metal server offered by Amazon Web Services with 16 vCPUs, 32 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.1202 USD per hour.

The a1.metal server is equipped with 16 logical CPU cores on 16 AWS Cortex-A72 physical CPU cores, 32 GiB of memory, 0 GB of storage, and no GPU. Additional block storage can be attached as needed.

We have run 32 frameworks on the a1.metal server, and collected 405 performance metrics. Depending on your use case, you might want to look at our Memory bandwidth, Compression algo, or OpenSSL speed benchmarks, among others. As a baseline example, the multi-core Geekbench6 compound score suggests that the a1.metal server is 1.408x faster than the baseline Dell Precision 3460 with a Core i7-12700 processor.

The pricing for a1.metal servers starts at 0.1202 USD per hour, but the actual price depends on the selected region, zone and server allocation method (e.g. on-demand versus spot pricing options): currently, we track the prices in 50 regions and zones every 5 minutes, and the maximum price stands at 0.533 USD.

The a1.metal server is offered by Amazon Web Services, founded in 2002, headquartered in Washington, United States. For more information, visit the Amazon Web Services homepage.

The a1.metal server is available in 50 availability zones of the following 9 regions: Northern Virgina (US), Oregon (US), Ohio (US), Singapore (SG), Tokyo (JP), Frankfurt (DE), Dublin (IE), Mumbai (IN), Sydney (AU).

Yes! In addition to the a1.metal server, the a1 server family includes 5 other sizes: a1.medium (aws), a1.large (aws), a1.xlarge (aws), a1.2xlarge (aws), a1.4xlarge (aws).

Looking at the number of GPU, vCPUs, and memory amount, the following top 10 servers come with similar specs: cx52 (hcloud), c2d-highcpu-16 (gcp), c3d-highcpu-16 (gcp), n4-highcpu-16 (gcp), c4-highcpu-16 (gcp), cpx51 (hcloud), cax41 (hcloud).