m4.xlarge · EC2 Prices

m General purpose

4 Generation 4

xlarge 4 vCPU · 16 GiB

$0.1210/hr

3-yr reserved in Frankfurt

On-demand 1-yr 3-yr

4 vCPU

Xeon Haswell, 2.4 GHz

16 GiB

4 GiB per vCPU

EBS only

Local storage

High

Network bandwidth

750 Mbps

EBS bandwidth

x86_64

Architecture

Every way to pay

Prices in Frankfurt. Bars are relative to on-demand.

Plan	Monthly	Yearly	Saves
On-demand Pay by the second, no commitment	$175	$2,102
Reserved, 1 yr No upfront, this size and region	$120	$1,435	−32%
Reserved, 3 yr No upfront, this size and region	$88.33	$1,060	−50%

Plan

Monthly

Yearly

Saves

On-demand

Pay by the second, no commitment

$175

$2,102

Reserved, 1 yr

No upfront, this size and region

$120

$1,435

−32%

Reserved, 3 yr

No upfront, this size and region

$88.33

$1,060

−50%

What will it cost me?

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× m4.xlarge, on-demand

/mo

a year

You run these most of the time. A 1-year reservation bills every hour, and would still cost /mo.

Same usage on each plan	Monthly	Yearly
On-demand
Reserved 1 yr
Reserved 3 yr

Reservations bill every hour of the month, whether the instance runs or not.

Other sizes in this family

Price roughly doubles with each step. Pick a size to open it.

$0.060 large $0.121 xl $0.242 2xl $0.484 4xl $1.21 10xl $1.94 16xl

Price in every region

Cheapest in US East (Ohio). Moving from Frankfurt would save $303 a year per instance.

US East (Ohio) us-east-2$0.0864 −29%US West (Oregon) us-west-2$0.0864 −29%US East (N. Virginia) us-east-1$0.0864 −29%Asia Pacific (Mumbai) ap-south-1$0.0885 −27%Canada (Central) ca-central-1$0.0950 −21%Asia Pacific (Singapore) ap-southeast-1$0.1058 −13%Asia Pacific (Seoul) ap-northeast-2$0.1080 −11%Europe (Ireland) eu-west-1$0.1080 −11%

AWS GovCloud (US-West) us-gov-west-1$0.1123 −7%Europe (London) eu-west-2$0.1145 −5%US West (N. California) us-west-1$0.1166 −4%Europe (Frankfurt) eu-central-1$0.1210 base Asia Pacific (Sydney) ap-southeast-2$0.1210 0%Asia Pacific (Tokyo) ap-northeast-1$0.1274 +5%Asia Pacific (Osaka) ap-northeast-3$0.1274 +5%South America (São Paulo) sa-east-1$0.1382 +14%

Not offered in Calgary , Central , US-East , Paris , Zurich , Stockholm , Milan , Spain , Hyderabad , Jakarta , Melbourne , Malaysia , New Zealand , Thailand , Hong Kong , Taipei , UAE , Bahrain , Tel Aviv , Cape Town .

Same shape, other families

Every instance with 4 vCPU · 16 GiB in Frankfurt, ranked by price.

Instance	Processor	Generation	Local disk	Price/hr	vs m4.xlarge
t4g.xlarge	Graviton2	Gen 4	EBS only	$0.0663	−45%
t3a.xlarge	EPYC Naples	Gen 3	EBS only	$0.0746	−38%
m6g.xlarge	Graviton2	Gen 6	EBS only	$0.0799	−34%
t3.xlarge	Xeon Skylake	Newest	EBS only	$0.0829	−31%
m7g.xlarge	Graviton3	Gen 7	EBS only	$0.0887	−27%
m5a.xlarge	EPYC Naples	Gen 5	EBS only	$0.0900	−26%
m6a.xlarge	EPYC Milan	Gen 6	EBS only	$0.0939	−22%
m6gd.xlarge	Graviton2	Gen 6	237 GB NVMe	$0.0950	−21%
m8g.xlarge	Graviton4	Gen 8	EBS only	$0.0976	−19%
m5.xlarge	Xeon Skylake	Newest	EBS only	$0.0990	−18%
m7i-flex.xlarge	Xeon Sapphire Rapids	Gen 7	EBS only	$0.1041	−14%
m6i.xlarge	Xeon Ice Lake	Gen 6	EBS only	$0.1043	−14%
m5ad.xlarge	EPYC Naples	Gen 5	150 GB NVMe	$0.1080	−11%
m7i.xlarge	Xeon Sapphire Rapids	Gen 7	EBS only	$0.1095	−9%
t2.xlarge	Xeon Family	Gen 2	EBS only	$0.1106	−9%
m7gd.xlarge	Graviton3	Gen 7	237 GB NVMe	$0.1110	−8%
m5d.xlarge	Xeon Skylake	Gen 5	150 GB NVMe	$0.1180	−2%
m4.xlarge	Xeon Haswell	Gen 4	EBS only	$0.1210	—
m5n.xlarge	Xeon Cascade Lake	Gen 5	EBS only	$0.1220	+1%
m6id.xlarge	Xeon Ice Lake	Gen 6	237 GB NVMe	$0.1234	+2%
m7a.xlarge	EPYC Genoa	Gen 7	EBS only	$0.1260	+4%
m5dn.xlarge	Xeon Cascade Lake	Gen 5	150 GB NVMe	$0.1400	+16%
m6in.xlarge	Xeon Ice Lake	Gen 6	EBS only	$0.1425	+18%
m6idn.xlarge	Xeon Ice Lake	Gen 6	237 GB NVMe	$0.1638	+35%
m5zn.xlarge	Xeon Cascade Lake	Gen 5	EBS only	$0.1719	+42%
im4gn.xlarge	Graviton2	Gen 4	1.9 TB SSD	$0.1992	+65%
d3en.xlarge	Xeon Cascade Lake	Gen 3	28 TB HDD	$0.2990	+147%

Specifications

API name: m4.xlarge
Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2676 v3 (Haswell)
Local storage: EBS only
Family: General purpose
Clock speed: 2.4 GHz
Network: High
Generation: Gen 4
Architecture: x86_64
EBS bandwidth: 750 Mbps
vCPUs: 4
Memory: 16 GiB
GPUs: None