a1.xlarge by Amazon Web Services
a1.xlarge is a AWS Graviton Gen1 xlarge server offered by Amazon Web Services with 4 vCPUs, 8 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0871 USD per hour.
4 vCPU
8 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
5919
(All-cores)
(All-cores)
1488
(Single-core)
(Single-core)
Specifications
Server Metadata
Vendor ID | aws |
Name | a1.xlarge |
Description | AWS Graviton Gen1 xlarge |
Family | a1 |
Status | active |
Observed At | 2026-05-09T16:31:55.036602 |
Availability
| REGION / ID | SPOT | ONDEMAND |
|---|---|---|
Ohio (US) / us-east-2 | 0.0871 USD/h | 0.102 USD/h |
Mumbai (IN) / ap-south-1 | 0.102 USD/h | 0.102 USD/h |
Northern Virgina (US) / us-east-1 | 0.102 USD/h | 0.102 USD/h |
Oregon (US) / us-west-2 | 0.102 USD/h | 0.102 USD/h |
Dublin (IE) / eu-west-1 | 0.1152 USD/h | 0.1152 USD/h |
Frankfurt (DE) / eu-central-1 | 0.1164 USD/h | 0.1164 USD/h |
Singapore (SG) / ap-southeast-1 | 0.1176 USD/h | 0.1176 USD/h |
Tokyo (JP) / ap-northeast-1 | 0.1284 USD/h | 0.1284 USD/h |
Sydney (AU) / ap-southeast-2 | 0.1332 USD/h | 0.1332 USD/h |
Processor
vCPUs | 4 |
Hypervisor | nitro |
CPU Allocation | Dedicated |
CPU Cores | 4 |
CPU Speed | 2.3 GHz |
CPU Architecture | arm64 |
CPU Manufacturer | AWS |
CPU Family | ARMv8 |
CPU Model | Cortex-A72 |
CPU L1D Cache | 32 KiB |
CPU L1D Cache Total | 128 KiB |
CPU L1I Cache | 48 KiB |
CPU L1I Cache Total | 192 KiB |
CPU L2 Cache | 2 MiB |
CPU L2 Cache Total | 2 MiB |
CPU Flags | fp, asimd, evtstrm, aes, pmull, sha1, sha2, crc32, cpuid |
System Resources and Accelerators
| MEMORY | |
|---|---|
Memory Amount | 8 GiB |
| GPU | |
|---|---|
GPU Count | 0 |
GPUs |
| STORAGE | |
|---|---|
Storage Size | 0 GB |
Storages |
| NETWORK | |
|---|---|
Network Speed | 1.25 Gbps |
Inbound Traffic | 0 GB/month |
Outbound Traffic | 0 GB/month |
IPv4 | 0 |
Economics
Performance
Memory Bandwidth
Compression
OpenSSL
Geekbench Single-Core
Score: 408
Geekbench Multi-Core
Score: 1,245
Passmark CPU Scores
| BENCHMARK | SCORE |
|---|---|
Mark | 1618 |
Compression | 10812 |
Encryption | 396 |
Extended Instructions | 975 |
Floating Point Maths | 5712 |
Integer Maths | 14704 |
Physics | 252 |
Prime Numbers | 12 |
Single Threaded | 619 |
String Sorting | 6753 |
Passmark Memory Scores
| BENCHMARK | SCORE |
|---|---|
Memory Mark | 913 |
Database Operations | 1263 |
Memory Latency | 66 |
Memory Read Cached | 8226 |
Memory Read Uncached | 7986 |
Memory Write | 8610 |
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
| INSTANCE | vCPUs | MEMORY | GPUs |
|---|---|---|---|
| a1.medium | 1 | 2 GiB | 0 |
| a1.large | 2 | 4 GiB | 0 |
| a1.2xlarge | 8 | 16 GiB | 0 |
| a1.4xlarge | 16 | 32 GiB | 0 |
| a1.metal | 16 | 32 GiB | 0 |
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