AWS Amazon EC2

m2.4xlarge

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Part of the M2 General Purpose family — Balanced compute, memory, and networking for a wide range of workloads.

Name:mGeneral Purpose22nd Generation4xlarge4 Extra Large

On-demand, Linux

$0.9800/ hr

~$715.40/mo · lowest in US East (N. Virginia), us-east-1

Savings Plan, Linux

$0.2940/ hr

From, with a 3-year Compute Savings Plan, No Upfront: −70% vs on-demand rate (us-east-1)

Per unit

$0.1225/ vCPU-hr

$0.0143/GB-hr

Compute

8vCPUs

8 cores • x86_64

Memory

68GB

8.6 GB / vCPU

Network

High

Baseline: 1 Gbps

Storage & EBS

125MB/s

Max: 8,000 IOPS

On Google Cloud

The nearest Google Cloud machines to m2.4xlarge by vCPU and memory, at On-demand Linux rates in Northern Virginia (us-east-1 ↔ us-east4).

Machine	Size	On-demand Linux	vs m2.4xlarge
m2.4xlargeThis page · AWS, us-east-1	8 vCPU · 68.4 GiB	$0.9800/hr	—
z3-highmem-14-standardlssd14 vCPU and 112 GiB for 8 vCPU and 68.4 GiB, the nearest size up; Intel on both; 8 physical cores vs 7	14 vCPU · 112 GiB	$1.481633/hr	51% more
n1-highmem-1616 vCPU and 104 GiB for 8 vCPU and 68.4 GiB, the nearest size up; Intel on both; local disk on m2.4xlarge only	16 vCPU · 104 GiB	$1.065864/hr	8.8% more
z4m-highmem-1616 vCPU and 122 GiB for 8 vCPU and 68.4 GiB, the nearest size up; Intel on both	16 vCPU · 122 GiB	$1.095165/hr	12% more

Matched on vCPU and memory, then CPU vendor, then rate; a larger size is offered only when nothing is the same size. On-demand Linux only: Spot and commitments work differently on the two clouds, so they aren't compared here.

Technical Specifications & Limits

Hardware specs, container thresholds, and system limits

Compute & Processor

ProcessorIntel Xeon Family

Architecturex86_64 (x86_64)

vCPUs / Threads8 vCPUs

Physical Cores8

Clock Speed—

Intel AVX / AVX2No

Intel Turbo BoostNo

Bare MetalNo (Virtualized)

Performance & Benchmarks

CoreMark Score111,322

CoreMark / vCPU13,915.3 / core

FFmpeg Transcoding38 FPS

CoreMark per Dollar113,594 score / $

Cost per vCPU-hr$0.1225

Cost per GB-hr$0.0143

Containers & Kubernetes

EKS Max Pods234 pods

Max ENIs8

IPv4/v6 per ENI30

Total Addressable IPs240 total IPs

CNI Prefix DelegationStandard CNI

Networking & Bandwidth

Network PerformanceHigh

Baseline Bandwidth1 Gbps

Burst / Peak Bandwidth10 Gbps

Enhanced NetworkingNo

EFA SupportNo

IPv6 SupportNative Dual-Stack Supported

Storage & EBS Optimization

Storage ConfigurationSSD (1680 GB)

Local NVMe Disk1,680 GB SSD

EBS Baseline Throughput125 MB/s

EBS Max Throughput125 MB/s

EBS Baseline IOPS8,000

EBS Max / Burst IOPS8,000

Dedicated EBS Throughput1 Mbps

Platform & Architecture Details

Hypervisor / SystemXen Hypervisor

Nitro EnclavesNot Supported

Normalization Factor32

Generation StatusPrevious Generation

Rates by region

Live on-demand rates across all global AWS cloud regions

Lowest Price Region

$0.9800/ hr

US East (N. Virginia) (us-east-1)

Highest Price Region

$1.2910/ hr

South America (Sao Paulo) (sa-east-1)

Global Fleet Average

$1.1264/ hr

Across all active regions

Regional Coverage

9regions

Available worldwide

Linux — Available in all 9 regions
Region	On-Demand Price	% vs On-Demand Rate
ap-southeast-1 Asia Pacific (Singapore)	$1.1830
ap-southeast-2 Asia Pacific (Sydney)	$1.1830
ap-northeast-1 Asia Pacific (Tokyo)	$1.1500
us-gov-west-1 AWS GovCloud (US-West)	$1.1710
eu-west-1 EU (Ireland)	$1.1000
sa-east-1 South America (Sao Paulo) Highest	$1.2910
us-east-1 US East (N. Virginia) Lowest	$0.9800
us-west-1 US West (N. California)	$1.1000
us-west-2 US West (Oregon) Lowest	$0.9800

Windows — Available in all 9 regions
Region	On-Demand Price	% vs On-Demand Rate
ap-southeast-1 Asia Pacific (Singapore)	$1.4830
ap-southeast-2 Asia Pacific (Sydney)	$1.4830
ap-northeast-1 Asia Pacific (Tokyo)	$1.4100
us-gov-west-1 AWS GovCloud (US-West)	$1.5710
eu-west-1 EU (Ireland) Lowest	$1.3800
sa-east-1 South America (Sao Paulo) Highest	$1.6910
us-east-1 US East (N. Virginia) Lowest	$1.3800
us-west-1 US West (N. California)	$1.5000
us-west-2 US West (Oregon) Lowest	$1.3800

Savings Plans: what to know

A Savings Plan commits you to a dollar amount per hour of spend for one or three years, not to an instance: usage up to that amount is billed at the plan's rates and the rest at on-demand, and unused commitment is still billed.
A Compute Savings Plan follows your usage across instance families, sizes, regions and operating systems; an EC2 Instance Savings Plan is locked to one family in one region in exchange for a lower rate (what that flexibility costs).
In US East (N. Virginia) (us-east-1), the 3-year Compute Savings Plan rate (No Upfront) for m2.4xlarge on Linux is 30% of the on-demand rate, so the instance has to run at least 30% of the hours for the commitment to cost less than on-demand.
On Windows a plan discounts only the compute part of the rate: the Windows license part costs the same as on demand, so the percentage off is smaller than on Linux.
Rates are AWS's effective hourly rate for each payment option; All Upfront pays the whole term's commitment at purchase, which is why its hourly rate is lower; Partial Upfront (at least half up front) isn't shown on this page. The Savings Plans calculator has all three and sizes a commitment for this instance or a mix of them. How AWS applies a plan each hour: how Compute Savings Plans decide what they cover. Sizing one for elastic workloads: managing Compute Savings Plans.