AWS Amazon EC2

m4.xlarge

Part of the M4 General Purpose family — Balanced compute, memory, and networking for a wide range of workloads.

Name:mGeneral Purpose44th GenerationxlargeExtra Large (1x)

On-demand, Linux

$0.2000/ hr

~$146.00/mo · lowest in US East (N. Virginia), us-east-1

Savings Plan, Linux

$0.0994/ hr

From, with a 3-year Compute Savings Plan, No Upfront: −50% vs on-demand rate (us-east-1)

Per unit

$0.0500/ vCPU-hr

$0.0125/GB-hr

Compute

4vCPUs

2 cores • x86_64

Memory

16GB

4.0 GB / vCPU

Network

High

Baseline: 0.75 Gbps

Storage & EBS

93.75MB/s

Max: 6,000 IOPS

Alternatives to m4.xlarge

Option	Price vs m4.xlarge	Why look at it
m5.xlarge Compare →	-4%-$0.008/hr Linux on-demand, us-east-1	Newer generation, same vCPU and RAM
m6i.xlarge Compare →	-4%-$0.008/hr Linux on-demand, us-east-1	Newer generation, same vCPU and RAM
m7i.xlarge Compare →	+1%+$0.0016/hr Linux on-demand, us-east-1	Newer generation, same vCPU and RAM
m7g.xlarge Compare →	-18%-$0.0368/hr Linux on-demand, us-east-1	Graviton (arm64), newer generation, same vCPU and RAM

On Google Cloud

The nearest Google Cloud machines to m4.xlarge by vCPU and memory, at On-demand Linux rates in Northern Virginia (us-east-1 ↔ us-east4).

Machine	Size	On-demand Linux	vs m4.xlarge
m4.xlargeThis page · AWS, us-east-1	4 vCPU · 16 GiB	$0.2000/hr	—
n4-standard-4same 4 vCPU and 16 GiB; Intel on both	4 vCPU · 16 GiB	$0.1814/hr	9.3% less
c3-standard-4same 4 vCPU and 16 GiB; Intel on both	4 vCPU · 16 GiB	$0.201608/hr	0.8% more
n2-standard-4same 4 vCPU and 16 GiB; Intel on both	4 vCPU · 16 GiB	$0.218756/hr	9.4% 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 E5-2676 v3 (Haswell)

Architecturex86_64 (x86_64)

vCPUs / Threads4 vCPUs

Physical Cores2

Clock Speed2.4 GHz

Intel AVX / AVX2AVX & AVX2 Supported

Intel Turbo BoostYes

Bare MetalNo (Virtualized)

Performance & Benchmarks

CoreMark Score58,499

CoreMark / vCPU14,624.9 / core

FFmpeg Transcoding24 FPS

CoreMark per Dollar292,495 score / $

Cost per vCPU-hr$0.0500

Cost per GB-hr$0.0125

Containers & Kubernetes

EKS Max Pods58 pods

Max ENIs4

IPv4/v6 per ENI15

Total Addressable IPs60 total IPs

CNI Prefix DelegationStandard CNI

Networking & Bandwidth

Network PerformanceHigh

Baseline Bandwidth0.75 Gbps

Burst / Peak Bandwidth2.8 Gbps

Enhanced NetworkingYes

EFA SupportNo

IPv6 SupportNative Dual-Stack Supported

Storage & EBS Optimization

Storage ConfigurationEBS only

Local NVMe DiskNone (EBS only)

EBS Baseline Throughput93.75 MB/s

EBS Max Throughput93.75 MB/s

EBS Baseline IOPS6,000

EBS Max / Burst IOPS6,000

Dedicated EBS Throughput750 Mbps

Platform & Architecture Details

Hypervisor / SystemXen Hypervisor

Nitro EnclavesNot Supported

Normalization Factor8

Generation StatusCurrent Generation (Recommended)

Rates by region

Live on-demand rates across all global AWS cloud regions

Lowest Price Region

$0.2000/ hr

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

Highest Price Region

$0.3180/ hr

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

Global Fleet Average

$0.2370/ hr

Across all active regions

Regional Coverage

16regions

Available worldwide

Linux — Available in all 16 regions
Region	On-Demand Price	% vs On-Demand Rate
ap-south-1 Asia Pacific (Mumbai)	$0.2100
ap-northeast-3 Asia Pacific (Osaka)	$0.2580
ap-northeast-2 Asia Pacific (Seoul)	$0.2460
ap-southeast-1 Asia Pacific (Singapore)	$0.2500
ap-southeast-2 Asia Pacific (Sydney)	$0.2500
ap-northeast-1 Asia Pacific (Tokyo)	$0.2580
us-gov-west-1 AWS GovCloud (US-West)	$0.2520
ca-central-1 Canada (Central)	$0.2220
eu-central-1 EU (Frankfurt)	$0.2400
eu-west-1 EU (Ireland)	$0.2220
eu-west-2 EU (London)	$0.2320
sa-east-1 South America (Sao Paulo) Highest	$0.3180
us-east-1 US East (N. Virginia) Lowest	$0.2000
us-east-2 US East (Ohio) Lowest	$0.2000
us-west-1 US West (N. California)	$0.2340
us-west-2 US West (Oregon) Lowest	$0.2000

Windows — Available in all 16 regions
Region	On-Demand Price	% vs On-Demand Rate
ap-south-1 Asia Pacific (Mumbai)	$0.3940
ap-northeast-3 Asia Pacific (Osaka)	$0.4420
ap-northeast-2 Asia Pacific (Seoul)	$0.4300
ap-southeast-1 Asia Pacific (Singapore)	$0.4340
ap-southeast-2 Asia Pacific (Sydney)	$0.4340
ap-northeast-1 Asia Pacific (Tokyo)	$0.4420
us-gov-west-1 AWS GovCloud (US-West)	$0.4360
ca-central-1 Canada (Central)	$0.4060
eu-central-1 EU (Frankfurt)	$0.4240
eu-west-1 EU (Ireland)	$0.4060
eu-west-2 EU (London)	$0.4160
sa-east-1 South America (Sao Paulo) Highest	$0.5020
us-east-1 US East (N. Virginia) Lowest	$0.3840
us-east-2 US East (Ohio) Lowest	$0.3840
us-west-1 US West (N. California)	$0.4180
us-west-2 US West (Oregon) Lowest	$0.3840

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 m4.xlarge on Linux is 50% of the on-demand rate, so the instance has to run at least 50% 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.