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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 0.3819 USD per hour.
16 vCPU
32 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
24103
(All-cores)
1508
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
aws
Name
a1.metal
Description
AWS Graviton Gen1 metal
Family
a1
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-08-09T13:50:07.905156

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Ohio (US) / us-east-2
0.38195 USD/h 0.408 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / ap-south-1
0.4039 USD/h 0.408 USD/h
Northern Virgina (US) / us-east-1
0.408 USD/h 0.408 USD/h
Oregon (US) / us-west-2
0.408 USD/h 0.408 USD/h
Dublin (IE) / eu-west-1
0.461 USD/h 0.461 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / eu-central-1
0.466 USD/h 0.466 USD/h
Singapore (SG) / ap-southeast-1
0.47 USD/h 0.47 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / ap-northeast-1
0.514 USD/h 0.514 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / ap-southeast-2
0.533 USD/h 0.533 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
16
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
16
CPU Speed
2.3 GHz
CPU Architecture
arm64
CPU Manufacturer
AWS
CPU Model
Cortex-A72
CPU L1D Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
512 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
48 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
768 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
2 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
8 MiB
CPU Flags
fp, asimd, evtstrm, aes, pmull, sha1, sha2, crc32, cpuid
Ecpus
16
Scalability
100

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
32 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
32 GiB
GPU
GPU Count
0
GPU Memory Min
0 MiB
GPU Memory Total
0 MiB
GPUs
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    0 GB
    Storages
      NETWORK
      Network Speed Baseline
      5 Gbps
      Network Speed Max
      10 Gbps
      Network Storage Speed Baseline
      3.5 Gbps
      Network Storage Speed Max
      3.5 Gbps
      Inbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      Outbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      IPv4
      0

      Server Description

      A dedicated arm64 bare-metal server featuring sixteen physical cores for scale-out workloads and ARM-native application development.

      Compute OptimizedGeneral Purpose

      Amazon Web Services a1.metal is a bare-metal server featuring 16 dedicated physical cores on the arm64 architecture, powered by the 2.3 GHz AWS Graviton Cortex-A72 processor. Equipped with 32.0 GB of RAM, 5 Gbps baseline network bandwidth, and no local storage or GPUs, this instance is designed for ARM-native workloads. Benchmarks show average multi-core performance, with a stress-ng multi-core score of 24102.93 and 8.6 million Redis SET operations per second, though single-core and uncached memory write speeds are relatively weak. The lack of hyperthreading provides predictable execution, making it a qualitatively cost-effective option for scale-out applications, software compilation, and lightweight web serving.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.313Score
      Precomputed compound score for Cache Intensive workloads. A weighted average (geometric mean) of benchmark scores compared to their medians: score = ∏ (x_i / m_i)^(w_i / Σw). The score of 1.0 represents a synthetic baseline server with the median performance of each component benchmark; 0.5 means roughly half the performance; and 2.0 means twice the performance of that reference profile. Component weights: 50% Redis RPS (pipeline=1, SET), 20% Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET), 10% PassMark Memory Mark (composite), 10% Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3), 10% PassMark single-thread CPU. Rationale for component selection: In-memory key-value store workload, mixing direct Redis performance metrics with memory speed and latency benchmarks, and single-core CPU performance profiles.
      Component Score Weight Impact
      Raw Reference Normalized Target Actual
      Redis RPS (pipeline=1, SET) 499,325 ops/sec 1,910,660 ops/sec 0.261 50.00% 50.00% -48.90%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 4,205,684 ops/sec 11,608,287 ops/sec 0.362 20.00% 20.00% -18.40%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,603 2,416 0.664 10.00% 10.00% -4.01%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 34,755 MB/sec 107,896 MB/sec 0.322 10.00% 10.00% -10.70%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 622.1 Mops/s 2,364 Mops/s 0.263 10.00% 10.00% -12.50%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 418

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 3,520

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 5799
      Compression
      		 46950
      Encryption
      		 1624
      Extended Instructions
      		 3965
      Floating Point Maths
      		 23256
      Integer Maths
      		 59735
      Physics
      		 633
      Prime Numbers
      		 26
      Single Threaded
      		 622
      String Sorting
      		 24881

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 1603
      Database Operations
      		 4713
      Memory Latency
      		 64
      Memory Read Cached
      		 8476
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 8264
      Memory Write
      		 8737

      Stress-ng Raw Scores

      Stress-ng Relative Multicore Performance

      LLM Inference Speed for Prompt Processing

      LLM Inference Speed for Text Generation

      Static Web Server

      Redis

      Alternatives

      Servers of the Same Family

      INSTANCEvCPUsMEMORYGPUs
      a1.medium 12 GiB0
      a1.large 24 GiB0
      a1.xlarge 48 GiB0
      a1.2xlarge 816 GiB0
      a1.4xlarge 1632 GiB0

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