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Part of the M2 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.22nd Generation2 = 2nd GenerationAWS 2nd generation hardware platform with updated CPU/system architecture.4xlarge4 Extra Large4xlarge = 4 Extra Large8 vCPUs • 68.4 GiB RAM • 1680 GB SSD • High Network
Price (Linux)
$0.9800/ hr
~$715.40/mo
Compute
8vCPUs
8 cores • x86_64
Memory
68.4GiB
8.6 GiB / vCPU
Value
$0.1225/ vCPU-hr
$0.0143/GiB-hr
Network
10Gbps
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 / Threads8 vCPUs
Physical Cores8
Clock Speed—
Intel AVX / AVX2No
Intel Turbo BoostNo
Bare MetalNo (Virtualized)

Performance & Benchmarks

CoreMark Score111,322
CoreMark / vCPU13,915.3 / core
FFmpeg Transcoding38 FPS
CoreMark per Dollar113,594 score / $
Cost per vCPU-hr$0.1225
Cost per GiB-hr$0.0143

Containers & Kubernetes

EKS Max Pods234 pods
Max ECS Tasks7 tasks
Max ENIs8
IPv4/v6 per ENI30
Total Addressable IPs240 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 Disk1680 GB
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 Factor32
Generation StatusPrevious Generation
Date Introduced2009-10-27

Regional Pricing Matrix

Live on-demand rates across all global AWS cloud regions
Lowest Price Region
$0.9800/ hr
US East (N. Virginia) (us-east-1)
Highest Price Region
$1.2910/ hr
South America (Sao Paulo) (sa-east-1)
Global Fleet Average
$1.1264/ hr
Across all active regions
Regional Coverage
9regions
Available worldwide
Linux — Available in all 9 regions
Region NameRegion CodeOn-Demand Price
Asia Pacific (Singapore)
ap-southeast-1$1.1830
Asia Pacific (Sydney)
ap-southeast-2$1.1830
Asia Pacific (Tokyo)
ap-northeast-1$1.1500
AWS GovCloud (US-West)
us-gov-west-1$1.1710
EU (Ireland)
eu-west-1$1.1000
South America (Sao Paulo)Highest
sa-east-1$1.2910
US East (N. Virginia)Lowest
us-east-1$0.9800
US West (N. California)
us-west-1$1.1000
US West (Oregon)Lowest
us-west-2$0.9800