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Part of the M1 General Purpose family — 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.11st Generation1 = 1st GenerationAWS 1st generation hardware platform with updated CPU/system architecture.mediumMediummedium = Medium1 vCPUs • 4 GB RAM • 410 GB SSD • Moderate Network
Price (Linux)
$0.0870/ hr
~$63.51/mo
Compute
1vCPUs
1 cores • x86_64
Memory
4GB
3.8 GB / vCPU
Value
$0.0870/ vCPU-hr
$0.0232/GB-hr
Network
Moderate
Baseline: 0.3 Gbps
Storage & EBS
410 GB SSD
410 GB SSD

Technical Specifications & Limits

Hardware specs, container thresholds, and system limits

Compute & Processor

ProcessorIntel Xeon Family
Architecturex86_64 (x86_64)
vCPUs / Threads1 vCPUs
Physical Cores1
Clock Speed—
Intel AVX / AVX2No
Intel Turbo BoostNo
Bare MetalNo (Virtualized)

Performance & Benchmarks

CoreMark Score16,889
CoreMark / vCPU16,889 / core
FFmpeg Transcoding—
CoreMark per Dollar194,126 score / $
Cost per vCPU-hr$0.0870
Cost per GB-hr$0.0232

Containers & Kubernetes

EKS Max Pods12 pods
Max ECS Tasks1 tasks
Max ENIs2
IPv4/v6 per ENI6
Total Addressable IPs12 total IPs
CNI Prefix DelegationStandard CNI

Networking & Bandwidth

Network PerformanceModerate
Baseline Bandwidth0.3 Gbps
Burst / Peak Bandwidth1.2 Gbps
Enhanced NetworkingNo
EFA SupportNo
IPv6 SupportNative Dual-Stack Supported

Storage & EBS Optimization

Storage ConfigurationSSD (410 GB)
Local NVMe Disk410 GB SSD
EBS Baseline Throughput—
EBS Max Throughput—
EBS Baseline IOPS—
EBS Max / Burst IOPS—
Dedicated EBS Throughput1 Mbps

Platform & Architecture Details

Hypervisor / SystemXen Hypervisor
Nitro EnclavesNot Supported
Normalization Factor2
Generation StatusPrevious Generation
Date Introduced2012-03-07

Regional Pricing Matrix

Live on-demand rates across all global AWS cloud regions
Lowest Price Region
$0.0870/ hr
US East (N. Virginia) (us-east-1)
Highest Price Region
$0.1220/ hr
Asia Pacific (Tokyo) (ap-northeast-1)
Global Fleet Average
$0.1048/ hr
Across all active regions
Regional Coverage
9regions
Available worldwide
Linux — Available in all 9 regions
RegionOn-Demand Price
ap-southeast-1
Asia Pacific (Singapore)
$0.1170
ap-southeast-2
Asia Pacific (Sydney)
$0.1170
ap-northeast-1
Asia Pacific (Tokyo)
Highest
$0.1220
us-gov-west-1
AWS GovCloud (US-West)
$0.1060
eu-west-1
EU (Ireland)
$0.0950
sa-east-1
South America (Sao Paulo)
$0.1170
us-east-1
US East (N. Virginia)
Lowest
$0.0870
us-west-1
US West (N. California)
$0.0950
us-west-2
US West (Oregon)
Lowest
$0.0870