a1.large

a1.large is an AWS EC2 instance with 2 vCPUs, 4 GiB memory (AWS Graviton Processor). In US East (N. Virginia) it costs $0.051 per hour on demand ($37.23 per month) for Linux; a 1-year reserved instance with no upfront costs $0.0321 per hour, 37% less. Spot capacity is about $0.0477 per hour. It is sold in 9 regions; the cheapest is Asia Pacific (Mumbai) at $0.051 per hour.

Prices by region

USD per hour, Linux. Reserved prices are no upfront, standard. Cheapest on-demand first.

Region	On-demand	Spot	1-yr reserved	3-yr reserved	1-yr savings plan	3-yr savings plan
Asia Pacific (Mumbai) ap-south-1	$0.051	$0.051	$0.0321	$0.022	$0.0397	$0.027
US East (N. Virginia) us-east-1	$0.051	$0.0477	$0.0321	$0.022	$0.0369	$0.0253
US East (Ohio) us-east-2	$0.051	$0.0443	$0.0321	$0.022	$0.0369	$0.0253
US West (Oregon) us-west-2	$0.051	$0.051	$0.0321	$0.022	$0.0369	$0.0253
EU (Ireland) eu-west-1	$0.0576	$0.0576	$0.0363	$0.0249	$0.0453	$0.034
EU (Frankfurt) eu-central-1	$0.0582	$0.0582	$0.0367	$0.0251	$0.0466	$0.0343
Asia Pacific (Singapore) ap-southeast-1	$0.0588	$0.0588	$0.037	$0.0254	$0.0457	$0.031
Asia Pacific (Tokyo) ap-northeast-1	$0.0642	$0.0642	$0.0404	$0.0277	$0.0533	$0.0389
Asia Pacific (Sydney) ap-southeast-2	$0.0666	$0.0666	$0.042	$0.0288	$0.0493	$0.035

Reserved and Savings Plans Spot prices by region

Prices by operating system in US East (N. Virginia)

Operating system	On-demand /hr	1-yr reserved /hr	3-yr reserved /hr
Linux	$0.051	$0.0321	$0.022
RHEL	$0.0798	$0.0609	$0.0508
SUSE	$0.1073	$0.0571	$0.044
RHEL HA	$0.1148	$0.0959	$0.0858

Specs

Compute	Value
vCPUs	2
Architecture	arm64
Processor	AWS Graviton Processor
Clock speed	2.3 GHz

Memory	Value
Memory (GiB)	4

Networking	Value
Network	Up to 10 Gbps

Storage	Value
Storage	EBS only
EBS throughput	Up to 3500 Mbps

Instance details	Value
Instance type	a1.large
Family	a1
Category	General purpose
Current generation	No
Normalization factor	4

Other a1 sizes

Size	vCPUs	Memory (GiB)	On-demand /hr
a1.medium	1	2	$0.0255
a1.large	2	4	$0.051
a1.xlarge	4	8	$0.102
a1.2xlarge	8	16	$0.204
a1.4xlarge	16	32	$0.408
a1.metal	16	32	$0.408

Prices updated 2026-11-12 from AWS public price lists. Compare all AWS EC2 instances.