M3 General Purpose
Balanced compute, memory, and networking for a wide range of workloads.
Name:
mGeneral Purposem = General PurposeBalanced compute, memory, and networking resources for a wide variety of standard enterprise workloads and microservices.33rd Generation3 = 3rd GenerationAWS 3rd generation hardware platform with updated CPU/system architecture.Common use cases
- Web servers
- Application servers
- Small-to-medium databases
- Development environments
Instance types (4)
With a 3-year Compute Savings Plan (No Upfront), m3 sizes on Linux in US East (N. Virginia) (us-east-1) cost 35–36% 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| m3.medium | 1 | 4 GB | x86_64 | $0.0670 |
| m3.large | 2 | 8 GB | x86_64 | $0.1330 |
| m3.xlarge | 4 | 15 GB | x86_64 | $0.2660 |
| m3.2xlarge | 8 | 30 GB | x86_64 | $0.5320 |