Amazon EC2 Instance Type m3.xlarge

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance type m3.xlarge with 4 vCPUs and 15 GiB memory. Available in 11 Amazon Web Services (AWS) locations.

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Amazon EC2 Instance Type m3.xlarge

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

Instance Type m3.xlarge
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 4
Cores 2
Threads per Core 2
Burstable Performance Supported no
Memory Size 15
Network Performance High
Maximum Network Interfaces 4
Maximum Network Cards 1
IPv4 Addresses per Interface 15
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 2 x 40 SSD
Supported Root Device Types ebs, instance-store
Instance Store Supported yes
Instance Store Total Size 80
Instance Store NVME Support unsupported
Instance Store Encryption Support unsupported
EBS Optimized Support supported
EBS Optimized Baseline Bandwidth in Mbps 500
EBS Optimized Maximum Bandwidth in Mbps 500
EBS Optimized Baseline Throughput in MBps 62.5
EBS Optimized Maximum Throughput in MBps 62.5
EBS Optimized Baseline IOPS 4000
EBS Optimized Maximum IOPS 4000
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.xlarge

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

Price per Hour

Min. Avg. Max.
On-Demand 0.266 0.3345 0.392
Spot Instance 0.0381 0.1045 0.1416

Price per Month

Min. Avg. Max.
On-Demand Instance 194.18 244.22 286.16
Spot Instance 27.81 76.27 103.37
Reserved Instance one-year term no upfront 138.7 170.82 198.56
Reserved Instance one-year term partial upfront 121.27 151.02 191.77
Reserved Instance one-year term all upfront 119 147.56 168.75
Reserved Instance three-year term no upfront N/A N/A N/A
Reserved Instance three-year term partial upfront 81.16 103.8 124.67
Reserved Instance three-year term all upfront 76.28 97.43 107.28
Convertible Reserved Instance one-year term no upfront 145.27 182.28 208.05
Convertible Reserved Instance one-year term partial upfront 138.35 173.61 198.36
Convertible Reserved Instance one-year term all upfront 135.25 170 194.17
Convertible Reserved Instance three-year term no upfront 124.83 153.81 178.85
Convertible Reserved Instance three-year term partial upfront 109.13 135.91 172.9
Convertible Reserved Instance three-year term all upfront 107.11 132.81 151.89

Price per Location

Costs and pricing for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance type m3.xlarge 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 0.266 0.0809 194.18 59.06 138.7 119 N/A 76.28
us-west-2 US West (Oregon) North America Region 0.266 0.0738 194.18 53.87 138.7 119 N/A 76.28
eu-west-1 EU (Ireland) Europe Region 0.293 0.1256 213.89 91.69 160.6 145.5 N/A 97.56
us-west-1 US West (N. California) North America Region 0.308 0.0987 224.84 72.05 169.36 153.17 N/A 98.22
eu-central-1 EU (Frankfurt) Europe Region 0.315 0.1074 229.95 78.4 174.47 157.17 N/A 105.33
us-gov-west-1 AWS GovCloud (US) North America Region 0.336 N/A 245.28 N/A 178.12 145.33 N/A 93.25
ap-northeast-2 Asia Pacific (Seoul) Asia Pacific Region 0.366 N/A 267.18 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
ap-southeast-2 Asia Pacific (Sydney) Asia Pacific Region 0.372 0.1391 271.56 101.54 188.34 160.33 N/A 107.28
sa-east-1 South America (Sao Paulo) South America Region 0.381 0.0381 278.13 27.81 175.2 148.25 N/A 105.69
ap-northeast-1 Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Asia Pacific Region 0.385 0.1416 281.05 103.37 186.15 159.08 N/A 107.08
ap-southeast-1 Asia Pacific (Singapore) Asia Pacific Region 0.392 0.1351 286.16 98.62 198.56 168.75 N/A 107.28