m4.xlarge · EC2 Prices

m General purpose

4 Generation 4

xlarge 4 vCPU · 16 GiB

$171/mo

On-demand 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.

$85 large $171 xl $342 2xl $683 4xl $1.7k 10xl $2.7k 16xl

Price in every region

Cheapest in US East (N. Virginia). Moving from N. California would save $298 a year per instance.

US East (N. Virginia) us-east-1$146 −15%US East (Ohio) us-east-2$146 −15%US West (Oregon) us-west-2$146 −15%Asia Pacific (Mumbai) ap-south-1$153 −10%Canada (Central) ca-central-1$162 −5%Europe (Ireland) eu-west-1$162 −5%Europe (London) eu-west-2$169 −1%US West (N. California) us-west-1$171 base

Europe (Frankfurt) eu-central-1$175 +3%Asia Pacific (Seoul) ap-northeast-2$180 +5%Asia Pacific (Singapore) ap-southeast-1$182 +7%Asia Pacific (Sydney) ap-southeast-2$182 +7%AWS GovCloud (US-West) us-gov-west-1$184 +8%Asia Pacific (Tokyo) ap-northeast-1$188 +10%Asia Pacific (Osaka) ap-northeast-3$188 +10%South America (São Paulo) sa-east-1$232 +36%

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/mo	vs m4.xlarge
t4g.xlarge	Graviton2	Gen 4	EBS only	$117	−32%
t3a.xlarge	EPYC Naples	Gen 3	EBS only	$130	−24%
m6g.xlarge	Graviton2	Gen 6	EBS only	$131	−23%
m7g.xlarge	Graviton3	Gen 7	EBS only	$139	−19%
t3.xlarge	Xeon Skylake	Newest	EBS only	$145	−15%
m6a.xlarge	EPYC Milan	Gen 6	EBS only	$147	−14%
m5a.xlarge	EPYC Naples	Gen 5	EBS only	$147	−14%
m8g.xlarge	Graviton4	Gen 8	EBS only	$153	−10%
m6gd.xlarge	Graviton2	Gen 6	237 GB NVMe	$155	−9%
t2.xlarge	Xeon Family	Gen 2	EBS only	$161	−6%
m7i-flex.xlarge	Xeon Sapphire Rapids	Gen 7	EBS only	$163	−5%
m5.xlarge	Xeon Skylake	Newest	EBS only	$164	−4%
m6i.xlarge	Xeon Ice Lake	Gen 6	EBS only	$164	−4%
m4.xlarge	Xeon Haswell	Gen 4	EBS only	$171	—
m8i-flex.xlarge	Xeon Granite Rapids	Newest	EBS only	$171	0%
m7i.xlarge	Xeon Sapphire Rapids	Gen 7	EBS only	$172	+1%
m5ad.xlarge	EPYC Naples	Gen 5	150 GB NVMe	$178	+4%
m8i.xlarge	Xeon Granite Rapids	Newest	EBS only	$180	+6%
m7gd.xlarge	Graviton3	Gen 7	237 GB NVMe	$184	+7%
m5d.xlarge	Xeon Skylake	Gen 5	150 GB NVMe	$194	+14%
m8gd.xlarge	Graviton4	Gen 8	237 GB NVMe	$198	+16%
m6id.xlarge	Xeon Ice Lake	Gen 6	237 GB NVMe	$204	+19%
m6in.xlarge	Xeon Ice Lake	Gen 6	EBS only	$237	+39%
m6idn.xlarge	Xeon Ice Lake	Gen 6	237 GB NVMe	$268	+57%
m5zn.xlarge	Xeon Cascade Lake	Gen 5	EBS only	$281	+65%

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