m1.medium

m1.medium is an AWS EC2 instance with 1 vCPU, 3.75 GiB memory (Intel Xeon Family). In US East (N. Virginia) it costs $0.087 per hour on demand ($63.51 per month) for Linux; a 1-year reserved instance with no upfront costs $0.056 per hour, 36% less. Spot capacity is about $0.0114 per hour. It is sold in 9 regions.

Prices by region

USD per hour, Linux. Reserved prices are no upfront, standard. Cheapest on-demand first.

Region	On-demand	Spot	1-yr reserved	1-yr savings plan	3-yr savings plan
US East (N. Virginia) us-east-1	$0.087	$0.0114	$0.056	$0.064	$0.039
US West (Oregon) us-west-2	$0.087	$0.015	$0.056	$0.064	$0.039
EU (Ireland) eu-west-1	$0.095	$0.0289	$0.068	$0.078	$0.05
US West (N. California) us-west-1	$0.095	$0.0095	$0.068	$0.078	$0.05
AWS GovCloud (US-West) us-gov-west-1	$0.106	–	$0.066	$0.076	$0.048
Asia Pacific (Singapore) ap-southeast-1	$0.117	$0.0367	$0.078	$0.09	$0.055
Asia Pacific (Sydney) ap-southeast-2	$0.117	$0.0181	$0.078	$0.09	$0.055
South America (Sao Paulo) sa-east-1	$0.117	$0.0631	$0.068	$0.078	$0.053
Asia Pacific (Tokyo) ap-northeast-1	$0.122	$0.0387	$0.074	$0.085	$0.054

Reserved and Savings Plans Spot prices by region Windows prices by region

Prices by operating system in US East (N. Virginia)

Operating system	On-demand /hr	1-yr reserved /hr	3-yr reserved /hr
Linux	$0.087	$0.056	–
RHEL	$0.101	$0.07	–
RHEL HA	$0.12	–	–
Windows	$0.149	$0.115	–
SUSE	$0.187	$0.092	–
Windows SQL Web	$0.237	$0.155	–
Windows SQL Std	$0.744	$0.543	–

Specs

Compute	Value
vCPUs	1
Physical cores	1
Threads per core	1
Architecture	x86_64
Processor	Intel Xeon Family
CPU maker	Intel
Burstable	No
ECU	2

Memory	Value
Memory (GiB)	3.75

Networking	Value
Network	Moderate
Network baseline	0.3 Gbps
Network peak	1.2 Gbps
Enhanced networking	No
EFA	No
IPv6	No
Max network interfaces	2
IPv4 addresses per interface	6

Storage	Value
Storage	1 x 410 SSD
Local disks	1 × 410 GB HDD
EBS optimized	No
EBS over NVMe	No
Max EBS volumes	39

Instance details	Value
Instance type	m1.medium
Family	m1
Category	General purpose
Current generation	No
Normalization factor	2
Bare metal	No
Hypervisor	Xen
Placement groups	Partition, Spread
Hibernation	No
Nitro Enclaves	No
Boot modes	Legacy BIOS

Other m1 sizes

Size	vCPUs	Memory (GiB)	On-demand /hr
m1.small	1	1.7	$0.044
m1.medium	1	3.75	$0.087
m1.large	2	7.5	$0.175
m1.xlarge	4	15	$0.35

Prices updated 2026-11-12 from AWS public price lists. Compare all AWS EC2 instances.