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Part of the M3 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.33rd Generation3 = 3rd GenerationAWS 3rd generation hardware platform with updated CPU/system architecture.largeLargelarge = Large2 vCPUs • 7.5 GiB RAM • 32 GB SSD • Moderate Network
Price (Linux)
$0.1330/ hr
~$97.09/mo
Compute
2vCPUs
1 cores • x86_64
Memory
7.5GiB
3.8 GiB / vCPU
Value
$0.0665/ vCPU-hr
$0.0177/GiB-hr
Network
2.8Gbps
Baseline: 0.7 Gbps
Storage & EBS
32 GB
32 GB

Technical Specifications & Limits

Hardware specs, container thresholds, and system limits

Compute & Processor

ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2670 v2 (Ivy Bridge/Sandy Bridge)
Architecturex86_64 (x86_64)
vCPUs / Threads2 vCPUs
Physical Cores1
Clock Speed2.5 GHz
Intel AVX / AVX2AVX Supported
Intel Turbo BoostYes
Bare MetalNo (Virtualized)

Performance & Benchmarks

CoreMark Score29,280
CoreMark / vCPU14,639.9 / core
FFmpeg Transcoding11 FPS
CoreMark per Dollar220,150 score / $
Cost per vCPU-hr$0.0665
Cost per GiB-hr$0.0177

Containers & Kubernetes

EKS Max Pods29 pods
Max ECS Tasks2 tasks
Max ENIs3
IPv4/v6 per ENI10
Total Addressable IPs30 total IPs
CNI Prefix DelegationStandard CNI

Networking & Bandwidth

Network PerformanceModerate
Baseline Bandwidth0.7 Gbps
Burst / Peak Bandwidth2.8 Gbps
Enhanced NetworkingNo
EFA SupportNo
IPv6 SupportNative Dual-Stack Supported

Storage & EBS Optimization

Storage ConfigurationSSD (32 GB)
Local NVMe Disk32 GB
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 Factor4
Generation StatusPrevious Generation
Date Introduced2014-01-21

Regional Pricing Matrix

Live on-demand rates across all global AWS cloud regions
Lowest Price Region
$0.1330/ hr
US East (N. Virginia) (us-east-1)
Highest Price Region
$0.1960/ hr
Asia Pacific (Singapore) (ap-southeast-1)
Global Fleet Average
$0.1673/ hr
Across all active regions
Regional Coverage
11regions
Available worldwide
Linux — Available in all 11 regions
Region NameRegion CodeOn-Demand Price
Asia Pacific (Seoul)
ap-northeast-2$0.1830
Asia Pacific (Singapore)Highest
ap-southeast-1$0.1960
Asia Pacific (Sydney)
ap-southeast-2$0.1860
Asia Pacific (Tokyo)
ap-northeast-1$0.1930
AWS GovCloud (US-West)
us-gov-west-1$0.1680
EU (Frankfurt)
eu-central-1$0.1580
EU (Ireland)
eu-west-1$0.1460
South America (Sao Paulo)
sa-east-1$0.1900
US East (N. Virginia)Lowest
us-east-1$0.1330
US West (N. California)
us-west-1$0.1540
US West (Oregon)Lowest
us-west-2$0.1330