m3.xlarge

The m3.xlarge instance is in the General purpose family with 4 vCPUs, 15 GiB of memory and high network performance starting at $0.266 per hour.

Pricing

$0.266

On Demand

$0.099

Spot

$0.190

1-Year Reserved

N/A

3-Year Reserved

Family Sizes

SizevCPUsMemory (GiB)
m3.medium13.75
m3.large27.5
m3.xlarge415
m3.2xlarge830

Instance Variants

Variant
m3

Instance Details

ComputeValue
vCPUs4
Memory (GiB)15
Memory per vCPU (GiB)3.75
Physical ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2670 v2 (Ivy Bridge/Sandy Bridge)
Clock Speed (GHz)2.5 GHz
CPU Architecturex86_64
GPU
0
GPU Average Wattage0 W
GPU Architecture
none
Video Memory (GiB)0
GPU Compute Capability ?0
FPGA
0
ffmpeg FPS21
CoreMark iterations/Second58576.58889
NUMA ArchitectureValue
Uses NUMA Architecture ?No
NUMA Node CountN/A
Max NUMA DistanceN/A
Cores per NUMA Node (Avg)N/A
Threads per NUMA Node (Avg)N/A
Memory per NUMA Node (Avg MB)N/A
L3 Cache per NUMA Node (Avg MB)N/A
L3 Cache SharedN/A
NetworkingValue
Network Performance (Gibps)high
Enhanced Networking
false
IPv6
false
Placement Group ?
Trunking Compatible
false
Branch Interface0
Max ECS Tasks ?3
StorageValue
EBS Optimized
true
Max Bandwidth (Mbps) on EBS500
Max Throughput (MB/s) on EBS62.5
Max I/O operations/second IOPS4000
Baseline Bandwidth (Mbps) on EBS500
Baseline Throughput (MB/s) on EBS62.5
Baseline I/O operations/second IOPS4000
Devices2
Swap Partition
false
NVME Drive ?
false
Disk Space (GiB)40
SSD
true
Initialize Storage
false
Instance Store Read IOPSN/A
Instance Store Write IOPSN/A
AmazonValue
Generation
previous
Date Introduced2012-10-31
Instance Typem3.xlarge
Bare Metal
false
FamilyGeneral purpose
NameM3 General Purpose Extra Large
Elastic Map Reduce EMR
true
By Net service