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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.xlargeExtra Large (1x)xlarge = Extra Large (1x)4 vCPUs • 15.0 GiB RAM • 80 GB SSD • High Network
Price (Linux)
$0.2660/ hr
~$194.18/mo
Compute
4vCPUs
2 cores • x86_64
Memory
15.0GiB
3.8 GiB / vCPU
Value
$0.0665/ vCPU-hr
$0.0177/GiB-hr
Network
10Gbps
Baseline: 1 Gbps
Storage & EBS
62.5MB/s
Max: 4,000 IOPS

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 / Threads4 vCPUs
Physical Cores2
Clock Speed2.5 GHz
Intel AVX / AVX2AVX Supported
Intel Turbo BoostYes
Bare MetalNo (Virtualized)

Performance & Benchmarks

CoreMark Score58,577
CoreMark / vCPU14,644.1 / core
FFmpeg Transcoding21 FPS
CoreMark per Dollar220,214 score / $
Cost per vCPU-hr$0.0665
Cost per GiB-hr$0.0177

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 (80 GB)
Local NVMe Disk80 GB
EBS Baseline Throughput62.5 MB/s
EBS Max Throughput62.5 MB/s
EBS Baseline IOPS4,000
EBS Max / Burst IOPS4,000
Dedicated EBS Throughput500 Mbps

Platform & Architecture Details

Hypervisor / SystemXen Hypervisor
Nitro EnclavesNot Supported
Normalization Factor8
Generation StatusPrevious Generation
Date Introduced2012-10-31

Regional Pricing Matrix

Live on-demand rates across all global AWS cloud regions
Lowest Price Region
$0.2660/ hr
US East (N. Virginia) (us-east-1)
Highest Price Region
$0.3920/ hr
Asia Pacific (Singapore) (ap-southeast-1)
Global Fleet Average
$0.3345/ 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$0.3660
Asia Pacific (Singapore)Highest
ap-southeast-1$0.3920
Asia Pacific (Sydney)
ap-southeast-2$0.3720
Asia Pacific (Tokyo)
ap-northeast-1$0.3850
AWS GovCloud (US-West)
us-gov-west-1$0.3360
EU (Frankfurt)
eu-central-1$0.3150
EU (Ireland)
eu-west-1$0.2930
South America (Sao Paulo)
sa-east-1$0.3810
US East (N. Virginia)Lowest
us-east-1$0.2660
US West (N. California)
us-west-1$0.3080
US West (Oregon)Lowest
us-west-2$0.2660