AWS Amazon EC2

m2.xlarge

Prev Gen

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

Name:mGeneral Purpose22nd GenerationxlargeExtra Large (1x)

On-demand, Linux

$0.2450/ hr

~$178.85/mo · lowest in US East (N. Virginia), us-east-1

Savings Plan, Linux

$0.0730/ 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

2vCPUs

2 cores • x86_64

Memory

17GB

8.6 GB / vCPU

Network

Moderate

Baseline: 0.3 Gbps

Storage & EBS

420 GB SSD

On Google Cloud

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

Machine	Size	On-demand Linux	vs m2.xlarge
m2.xlargeThis page · AWS, us-east-1	2 vCPU · 17.1 GiB	$0.2450/hr	—
n1-highmem-44 vCPU and 26 GiB for 2 vCPU and 17.1 GiB, the nearest size up; Intel on both; local disk on m2.xlarge only	4 vCPU · 26 GiB	$0.266466/hr	8.8% more
c4-highmem-4-lssd4 vCPU and 31 GiB for 2 vCPU and 17.1 GiB, the nearest size up; Intel on both	4 vCPU · 31 GiB	$0.34287/hr	40% more
c4-highmem-44 vCPU and 31 GiB for 2 vCPU and 17.1 GiB, the nearest size up; Intel on both; local disk on m2.xlarge only	4 vCPU · 31 GiB	$0.260678/hr	6.4% 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 / Threads2 vCPUs

Physical Cores2

Clock Speed—

Intel AVX / AVX2No

Intel Turbo BoostNo

Bare MetalNo (Virtualized)

Performance & Benchmarks

CoreMark Score28,404

CoreMark / vCPU14,201.9 / core

FFmpeg Transcoding10 FPS

CoreMark per Dollar115,935 score / $

Cost per vCPU-hr$0.1225

Cost per GB-hr$0.0143

Containers & Kubernetes

EKS Max Pods58 pods

Max ENIs4

IPv4/v6 per ENI15

Total Addressable IPs60 total IPs

CNI Prefix DelegationStandard CNI

Networking & Bandwidth

Network PerformanceModerate

Baseline Bandwidth0.3 Gbps

Burst / Peak Bandwidth1.2 Gbps

Enhanced NetworkingNo

EFA SupportNo

IPv6 SupportNative Dual-Stack Supported

Storage & EBS Optimization

Storage ConfigurationSSD (420 GB)

Local NVMe Disk420 GB SSD

EBS Baseline Throughput—

EBS Max Throughput—

EBS Baseline IOPS—

EBS Max / Burst IOPS—

Dedicated EBS Throughput1 Mbps

Platform & Architecture Details

Hypervisor / SystemXen Hypervisor

Nitro EnclavesNot Supported

Normalization Factor8

Generation StatusPrevious Generation

Rates by region

Live on-demand rates across all global AWS cloud regions

Lowest Price Region

$0.2450/ hr

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

Highest Price Region

$0.3230/ hr

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

Global Fleet Average

$0.2817/ 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)	$0.2960
ap-southeast-2 Asia Pacific (Sydney)	$0.2960
ap-northeast-1 Asia Pacific (Tokyo)	$0.2870
us-gov-west-1 AWS GovCloud (US-West)	$0.2930
eu-west-1 EU (Ireland)	$0.2750
sa-east-1 South America (Sao Paulo) Highest	$0.3230
us-east-1 US East (N. Virginia) Lowest	$0.2450
us-west-1 US West (N. California)	$0.2750
us-west-2 US West (Oregon) Lowest	$0.2450

Windows — Available in all 9 regions
Region	On-Demand Price	% vs On-Demand Rate
ap-southeast-1 Asia Pacific (Singapore)	$0.3710
ap-southeast-2 Asia Pacific (Sydney)	$0.3710
ap-northeast-1 Asia Pacific (Tokyo)	$0.3520
us-gov-west-1 AWS GovCloud (US-West)	$0.3930
eu-west-1 EU (Ireland) Lowest	$0.3450
sa-east-1 South America (Sao Paulo) Highest	$0.4230
us-east-1 US East (N. Virginia) Lowest	$0.3450
us-west-1 US West (N. California)	$0.3750
us-west-2 US West (Oregon) Lowest	$0.3450

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.xlarge 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.