Amazon EC2 Instance Type m3.medium

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance type m3.medium with 1 vCPU and 3.75 GiB memory. Available in 11 Amazon Web Services (AWS) locations.

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Amazon EC2 Instance Type m3.medium

Technical facts about the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance type m3.medium.

Instance Type m3.medium
Instance Family and Generation M3
Instance Family Name General purpose
Current Generation no
Bare Metal no
Supported Usage Classes on-demand, spot
Supported Virtualization Types hvm, paravirtual
Hypervisor xen
CPU Manufacturer Intel
CPU Platform Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 (Ivy Bridge/Sandy Bridge)
Architectures x86_64
Clock Speed 2.5
vCPUs 1
Cores 1
Threads per Core 1
Burstable Performance Supported no
Memory Size 3.75
Network Performance Moderate
Maximum Network Interfaces 2
Maximum Network Cards 1
IPv4 Addresses per Interface 6
IPv6 Addresses per Interface 0
IPv6 Supported no
Elastic Network Adapter (ENA) Supported unsupported
ENA Express powered by AWS Scalable Reliable Datagram (SRD) Supported no
Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) Supported no
Network Encryption in Transit Supported no
Storage 1 x 4 SSD
Supported Root Device Types ebs, instance-store
Instance Store Supported yes
Instance Store Total Size 4
Instance Store NVME Support unsupported
Instance Store Encryption Support unsupported
EBS Optimized Support unsupported
EBS Optimized Baseline Bandwidth in Mbps -
EBS Optimized Maximum Bandwidth in Mbps -
EBS Optimized Baseline Throughput in MBps -
EBS Optimized Maximum Throughput in MBps -
EBS Optimized Baseline IOPS -
EBS Optimized Maximum IOPS -
EBS Encryption Support supported
EBS NVME Support unsupported
GPU Manufacturer -
GPU Name -
GPUs -
GPU Total Memory -
Placement Group Supported Strategies partition, spread
Hibernation Supported yes
Dedicated Hosts Supported yes
Auto Recovery Supported yes
Supported Boot Modes legacy-bios
Nitro Enclaves Support unsupported
Nitro TPM Support unsupported
SAP Supported no
SAP HANA Supported no
SAP Standard Benchmark (SAPS) -

Costs (Pricing) for m3.medium

Cost and pricing across all AWS locations for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance type m3.medium with free operating system.

Price per Hour

Min. Avg. Max.
On-Demand 0.067 0.0836 0.098
Spot Instance 0.0086 0.0248 0.0377

Price per Month

Min. Avg. Max.
On-Demand Instance 48.91 61.05 71.54
Spot Instance 6.28 18.11 27.52
Reserved Instance one-year term no upfront 35.04 42.85 49.64
Reserved Instance one-year term partial upfront 29.99 37.7 47.96
Reserved Instance one-year term all upfront 29.42 36.81 42.17
Reserved Instance three-year term no upfront 30.66 30.66 30.66
Reserved Instance three-year term partial upfront 20.31 26.01 31.17
Reserved Instance three-year term all upfront 19.08 24.41 26.94
Convertible Reserved Instance one-year term no upfront 36.5 45.7 51.83
Convertible Reserved Instance one-year term partial upfront 34.77 43.36 49.57
Convertible Reserved Instance one-year term all upfront 33.83 42.49 48.5
Convertible Reserved Instance three-year term no upfront 31.39 38.62 44.53
Convertible Reserved Instance three-year term partial upfront 26.78 33.82 43.25
Convertible Reserved Instance three-year term all upfront 26.47 33.13 37.94

Price per Location

Costs and pricing for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance type m3.medium in AWS locations in which the instance type is available.

Location Costs per Hour Costs per Month
Code Name Continent Type On-Demand Spot On-Demand Spot 1Y RI (No) 1Y RI (All) 3Y RI (No) 3Y RI (All)
us-east-1 US East (N. Virginia) North America Region 0.067 0.0117 48.91 8.54 35.04 29.42 N/A 19.08
us-west-2 US West (Oregon) North America Region 0.067 0.0086 48.91 6.28 35.04 29.42 N/A 19.08
eu-west-1 EU (Ireland) Europe Region 0.073 0.0297 53.29 21.68 40.15 36.17 N/A 24.56
us-west-1 US West (N. California) North America Region 0.077 0.0275 56.21 20.08 42.34 38.83 N/A 24.56
eu-central-1 EU (Frankfurt) Europe Region 0.079 0.0248 57.67 18.1 43.8 39.08 N/A 26.53
us-gov-west-1 AWS GovCloud (US) North America Region 0.084 N/A 61.32 N/A 44.53 36.5 N/A 23.47
ap-northeast-2 Asia Pacific (Seoul) Asia Pacific Region 0.091 N/A 66.43 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
ap-southeast-2 Asia Pacific (Sydney) Asia Pacific Region 0.093 0.0331 67.89 24.16 47.45 40.08 30.66 26.81
sa-east-1 South America (Sao Paulo) South America Region 0.095 0.0132 69.35 9.64 43.8 37.17 N/A 26.25
ap-northeast-1 Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Asia Pacific Region 0.096 0.0377 70.08 27.52 46.72 39.25 30.66 26.94
ap-southeast-1 Asia Pacific (Singapore) Asia Pacific Region 0.098 0.037 71.54 27.01 49.64 42.17 N/A 26.81