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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.mediumMediummedium = Medium1 vCPUs • 3.75 GiB RAM • 4 GB SSD • Moderate Network
Price (Linux)
$0.0670/ hr
~$48.91/mo
Compute
1vCPUs
1 cores • x86_64
Memory
3.75GiB
3.8 GiB / vCPU
Value
$0.0670/ vCPU-hr
$0.0179/GiB-hr
Network
1.2Gbps
Baseline: 0.3 Gbps
Storage & EBS
4 GB
4 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 / Threads1 vCPUs
Physical Cores1
Clock Speed2.5 GHz
Intel AVX / AVX2AVX Supported
Intel Turbo BoostYes
Bare MetalNo (Virtualized)

Performance & Benchmarks

CoreMark Score22,901
CoreMark / vCPU22,900.8 / core
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CoreMark per Dollar341,806 score / $
Cost per vCPU-hr$0.0670
Cost per GiB-hr$0.0179

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 (4 GB)
Local NVMe Disk4 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 Factor2
Generation StatusPrevious Generation
Date Introduced2014-01-21

Regional Pricing Matrix

Live on-demand rates across all global AWS cloud regions
Lowest Price Region
$0.0670/ hr
US East (N. Virginia) (us-east-1)
Highest Price Region
$0.0980/ hr
Asia Pacific (Singapore) (ap-southeast-1)
Global Fleet Average
$0.0836/ 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$0.0910
Asia Pacific (Singapore)Highest
ap-southeast-1$0.0980
Asia Pacific (Sydney)
ap-southeast-2$0.0930
Asia Pacific (Tokyo)
ap-northeast-1$0.0960
AWS GovCloud (US-West)
us-gov-west-1$0.0840
EU (Frankfurt)
eu-central-1$0.0790
EU (Ireland)
eu-west-1$0.0730
South America (Sao Paulo)
sa-east-1$0.0950
US East (N. Virginia)Lowest
us-east-1$0.0670
US West (N. California)
us-west-1$0.0770
US West (Oregon)Lowest
us-west-2$0.0670