M2 General Purpose
Balanced compute, memory, and networking for a wide range of workloads.
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mGeneral Purposem = General PurposeBalanced compute, memory, and networking resources for a wide variety of standard enterprise workloads and microservices.22nd Generation2 = 2nd GenerationAWS 2nd generation hardware platform with updated CPU/system architecture.Common use cases
- Web servers
- Application servers
- Small-to-medium databases
- Development environments
Instance types (3)
With a 3-year Compute Savings Plan (No Upfront), m2 sizes on Linux in US East (N. Virginia) (us-east-1) cost 70% less than the on-demand rate. Each size's page has the rates in every region. How Savings Plans are applied.
| Instance | vCPU | Memory | Architecture | From (Linux, $/hr) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| m2.xlarge | 2 | 17 GB | x86_64 | $0.2450 |
| m2.2xlarge | 4 | 34 GB | x86_64 | $0.4900 |
| m2.4xlarge | 8 | 68 GB | x86_64 | $0.9800 |