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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.xlargeExtra Large (1x)xlarge = Extra Large (1x)4 vCPUs • 15 GB RAM • 1680 GB SSD • High Network
Price (Linux)
$0.3500/ hr
~$255.50/mo
Compute
4vCPUs
4 cores • x86_64
Memory
15GB
3.8 GB / vCPU
Value
$0.0875/ vCPU-hr
$0.0233/GB-hr
Network
High
Baseline: 1 Gbps
Storage & EBS
125MB/s
Max: 8,000 IOPS

Technical Specifications & Limits

Hardware specs, container thresholds, and system limits

Compute & Processor

ProcessorIntel Xeon Family
Architecturex86_64 (x86_64)
vCPUs / Threads4 vCPUs
Physical Cores4
Clock Speed—
Intel AVX / AVX2No
Intel Turbo BoostNo
Bare MetalNo (Virtualized)

Performance & Benchmarks

CoreMark Score48,650
CoreMark / vCPU12,162.5 / core
FFmpeg Transcoding17 FPS
CoreMark per Dollar139,000 score / $
Cost per vCPU-hr$0.0875
Cost per GB-hr$0.0233

Containers & Kubernetes

EKS Max Pods58 pods
Max ECS Tasks3 tasks
Max ENIs4
IPv4/v6 per ENI15
Total Addressable IPs60 total IPs
CNI Prefix DelegationStandard CNI

Networking & Bandwidth

Network PerformanceHigh
Baseline Bandwidth1 Gbps
Burst / Peak Bandwidth10 Gbps
Enhanced NetworkingNo
EFA SupportNo
IPv6 SupportNative Dual-Stack Supported

Storage & EBS Optimization

Storage ConfigurationSSD (1680 GB)
Local NVMe Disk1,680 GB SSD
EBS Baseline Throughput125 MB/s
EBS Max Throughput125 MB/s
EBS Baseline IOPS8,000
EBS Max / Burst IOPS8,000
Dedicated EBS Throughput1 Mbps

Platform & Architecture Details

Hypervisor / SystemXen Hypervisor
Nitro EnclavesNot Supported
Normalization Factor8
Generation StatusPrevious Generation
Date Introduced2007-10-22

Regional Pricing Matrix

Live on-demand rates across all global AWS cloud regions
Lowest Price Region
$0.3500/ hr
US East (N. Virginia) (us-east-1)
Highest Price Region
$0.4860/ hr
Asia Pacific (Tokyo) (ap-northeast-1)
Global Fleet Average
$0.4187/ 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)
$0.4670
ap-southeast-2
Asia Pacific (Sydney)
$0.4670
ap-northeast-1
Asia Pacific (Tokyo)
Highest
$0.4860
us-gov-west-1
AWS GovCloud (US-West)
$0.4230
eu-west-1
EU (Ireland)
$0.3790
sa-east-1
South America (Sao Paulo)
$0.4670
us-east-1
US East (N. Virginia)
Lowest
$0.3500
us-west-1
US West (N. California)
$0.3790
us-west-2
US West (Oregon)
Lowest
$0.3500