M4 General Purpose

Balanced compute, memory, and networking for a wide range of workloads.

Name:mGeneral Purposem = General PurposeBalanced compute, memory, and networking resources for a wide variety of standard enterprise workloads and microservices.44th Generation4 = 4th GenerationAWS 4th generation hardware platform with updated CPU/system architecture.

Alternatives to m4

OptionPrice vs m4Why look at it
m5Compare →
-4%-$0.008/hr
xlarge, Linux on-demand, us-east-1		Newer generation, same vCPU and RAM
m6iCompare →
-4%-$0.008/hr
xlarge, Linux on-demand, us-east-1		Newer generation, same vCPU and RAM
m7iCompare →
+1%+$0.0016/hr
xlarge, Linux on-demand, us-east-1		Newer generation, same vCPU and RAM
m7gCompare →
-18%-$0.0368/hr
xlarge, Linux on-demand, us-east-1		Graviton (arm64), newer generation, same vCPU and RAM

Common use cases

  • Web servers
  • Application servers
  • Small-to-medium databases
  • Development environments

Head-to-Head Architecture Comparisons

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Generational Evolutionm4 vs m5 vs m6i vs m7i vs m7g

AWS General Purpose Evolution: M4 vs M5 vs M6i vs M7i vs M7g

From Haswell to Sapphire Rapids and Graviton3 in the 4:1 RAM workhorse tier

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Instance types (6)

InstancevCPUMemoryArchitectureFrom (Linux, $/hr)
m4.large28 GBx86_64$0.1000
m4.xlarge416 GBx86_64$0.2000
m4.2xlarge832 GBx86_64$0.4000
m4.4xlarge1664 GBx86_64$0.8000
m4.10xlarge40160 GBx86_64$2.0000
m4.16xlarge64256 GBx86_64$3.2000