m4.xlarge · EC2 Prices

m General purpose

4 Generation 4

xlarge 4 vCPU · 16 GiB

$0.1166/hr

3-yr reserved in N. California

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 N. California. Bars are relative to on-demand.

Plan	Monthly	Yearly	Saves
On-demand Pay by the second, no commitment	$171	$2,050
Reserved, 1 yr No upfront, this size and region	$124	$1,490	−27%
Reserved, 3 yr No upfront, this size and region	$85.12	$1,021	−50%

Plan

Monthly

Yearly

Saves

On-demand

Pay by the second, no commitment

$171

$2,050

Reserved, 1 yr

No upfront, this size and region

$124

$1,490

−27%

Reserved, 3 yr

No upfront, this size and region

$85.12

$1,021

−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.

$0.058 large $0.117 xl $0.233 2xl $0.467 4xl $1.17 10xl $1.87 16xl

Price in every region

Cheapest in US East (Ohio). Moving from N. California would save $265 a year per instance.

US East (Ohio) us-east-2$0.0864 −26%US West (Oregon) us-west-2$0.0864 −26%US East (N. Virginia) us-east-1$0.0864 −26%Asia Pacific (Mumbai) ap-south-1$0.0885 −24%Canada (Central) ca-central-1$0.0950 −19%Asia Pacific (Singapore) ap-southeast-1$0.1058 −9%Asia Pacific (Seoul) ap-northeast-2$0.1080 −7%Europe (Ireland) eu-west-1$0.1080 −7%

AWS GovCloud (US-West) us-gov-west-1$0.1123 −4%Europe (London) eu-west-2$0.1145 −2%US West (N. California) us-west-1$0.1166 base Europe (Frankfurt) eu-central-1$0.1210 +4%Asia Pacific (Sydney) ap-southeast-2$0.1210 +4%Asia Pacific (Tokyo) ap-northeast-1$0.1274 +9%Asia Pacific (Osaka) ap-northeast-3$0.1274 +9%South America (São Paulo) sa-east-1$0.1382 +19%

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 N. California, ranked by price.

Instance	Processor	Generation	Local disk	Price/hr	vs m4.xlarge
t4g.xlarge	Graviton2	Gen 4	EBS only	$0.0691	−41%
t3a.xlarge	EPYC Naples	Gen 3	EBS only	$0.0771	−34%
m6g.xlarge	Graviton2	Gen 6	EBS only	$0.0774	−34%
t3.xlarge	Xeon Skylake	Newest	EBS only	$0.0857	−27%
m7g.xlarge	Graviton3	Gen 7	EBS only	$0.0868	−26%
m5a.xlarge	EPYC Naples	Gen 5	EBS only	$0.0870	−25%
m6a.xlarge	EPYC Milan	Gen 6	EBS only	$0.0919	−21%
m6gd.xlarge	Graviton2	Gen 6	237 GB NVMe	$0.0929	−20%
m8g.xlarge	Graviton4	Gen 8	EBS only	$0.0954	−18%
m5.xlarge	Xeon Skylake	Newest	EBS only	$0.0970	−17%
m7i-flex.xlarge	Xeon Sapphire Rapids	Gen 7	EBS only	$0.1018	−13%
m6i.xlarge	Xeon Ice Lake	Gen 6	EBS only	$0.1021	−12%
m5ad.xlarge	EPYC Naples	Gen 5	150 GB NVMe	$0.1050	−10%
m7i.xlarge	Xeon Sapphire Rapids	Gen 7	EBS only	$0.1072	−8%
m7gd.xlarge	Graviton3	Gen 7	237 GB NVMe	$0.1086	−7%
t2.xlarge	Xeon Family	Gen 2	EBS only	$0.1101	−6%
m5d.xlarge	Xeon Skylake	Gen 5	150 GB NVMe	$0.1150	−1%
m4.xlarge	Xeon Haswell	Gen 4	EBS only	$0.1166	—
m6id.xlarge	Xeon Ice Lake	Gen 6	237 GB NVMe	$0.1207	+3%
m6in.xlarge	Xeon Ice Lake	Gen 6	EBS only	$0.1252	+7%
m6idn.xlarge	Xeon Ice Lake	Gen 6	237 GB NVMe	$0.1414	+21%
m5zn.xlarge	Xeon Cascade Lake	Gen 5	EBS only	$0.1677	+44%

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