m2.2xlarge

m2.2xlarge is an AWS EC2 instance with 4 vCPUs, 34.2 GiB memory (Intel Xeon Family). In US East (N. Virginia) it costs $0.49 per hour on demand ($357.70 per month) for Linux; a 1-year reserved instance with no upfront costs $0.222 per hour, 55% less. Spot capacity is about $0.1023 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	$0.49	$0.1023	$0.222	$0.255	$0.148
US West (Oregon) us-west-2	$0.49	$0.1491	$0.222	$0.255	$0.148
EU (Ireland) eu-west-1	$0.55	$0.1486	$0.268	$0.308	$0.192
US West (N. California) us-west-1	$0.55	$0.1134	$0.268	$0.308	$0.19
Asia Pacific (Tokyo) ap-northeast-1	$0.575	$0.1065	$0.302	$0.347	$0.216
AWS GovCloud (US-West) us-gov-west-1	$0.586	–	$0.272	$0.313	$0.185
Asia Pacific (Singapore) ap-southeast-1	$0.592	$0.1905	$0.296	$0.34	$0.212
Asia Pacific (Sydney) ap-southeast-2	$0.592	$0.1486	$0.296	$0.34	$0.212
South America (Sao Paulo) sa-east-1	$0.645	$0.0802	$0.258	$0.297	$0.205

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	$0.49	$0.222	–
RHEL	$0.55	$0.28	–
SUSE	$0.59	$0.258	–
Windows	$0.69	$0.496	–
Windows SQL Web	$0.85	$0.622	–
Windows SQL Std	$1.489	$0.944	–

Specs

Compute	Value
vCPUs	4
Physical cores	4
Threads per core	1
Architecture	x86_64
Processor	Intel Xeon Family
CPU maker	Intel
Burstable	No
ECU	13

Memory	Value
Memory (GiB)	34.2

Networking	Value
Network	Moderate
Network baseline	0.7 Gbps
Network peak	2.8 Gbps
Enhanced networking	No
EFA	No
IPv6	No
Max network interfaces	4
IPv4 addresses per interface	30

Storage	Value
Storage	1 x 850 SSD
Local disks	1 × 850 GB HDD
EBS optimized	Yes
EBS over NVMe	No
EBS baseline bandwidth	500 Mbps
EBS max bandwidth	500 Mbps
EBS baseline throughput	62.5 MB/s
EBS max throughput	62.5 MB/s
EBS baseline IOPS	4,000
EBS max IOPS	4,000
Max EBS volumes	39

Instance details	Value
Instance type	m2.2xlarge
Family	m2
Category	Memory optimized
Current generation	No
Normalization factor	16
Bare metal	No
Hypervisor	Xen
Placement groups	Partition, Spread
Hibernation	No
Nitro Enclaves	No
Boot modes	Legacy BIOS

Other m2 sizes

Size	vCPUs	Memory (GiB)	On-demand /hr
m2.xlarge	2	17.1	$0.245
m2.2xlarge	4	34.2	$0.49
m2.4xlarge	8	68.4	$0.98

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