m3.medium

m3.medium is an AWS EC2 instance with 1 vCPU, 3.75 GiB memory (Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 (Ivy Bridge/Sandy Bridge)). In US East (N. Virginia) it costs $0.067 per hour on demand ($48.91 per month) for Linux; a 1-year reserved instance with no upfront costs $0.048 per hour, 28% less. Spot capacity is about $0.0138 per hour. It is sold in 11 regions.

Prices by region

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

RegionOn-demandSpot1-yr reserved3-yr reserved1-yr savings plan3-yr savings plan
US East (N. Virginia) us-east-1$0.067$0.0138$0.048–$0.05$0.043
US West (Oregon) us-west-2$0.067$0.0181$0.048–$0.05$0.043
EU (Ireland) eu-west-1$0.073$0.0224$0.055–$0.062$0.05
US West (N. California) us-west-1$0.077$0.0134$0.058–$0.066$0.052
EU (Frankfurt) eu-central-1$0.079$0.0279$0.06–$0.067$0.054
AWS GovCloud (US-West) us-gov-west-1$0.084–$0.061–$0.064$0.055
Asia Pacific (Seoul) ap-northeast-2$0.091–––––
Asia Pacific (Sydney) ap-southeast-2$0.093$0.0267$0.065$0.042$0.067$0.059
South America (Sao Paulo) sa-east-1$0.095$0.0134$0.06–$0.063$0.054
Asia Pacific (Tokyo) ap-northeast-1$0.096$0.032$0.064$0.042$0.066$0.058
Asia Pacific (Singapore) ap-southeast-1$0.098$0.0348$0.068–$0.071$0.061
Reserved and Savings PlansSpot prices by regionWindows prices by region

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

Operating systemOn-demand /hr1-yr reserved /hr3-yr reserved /hr
Linux$0.067$0.048–
RHEL$0.081$0.058–
Windows$0.13$0.1–
Linux SQL Web$0.135$0.111–
RHEL SQL Web$0.149––
SUSE$0.167$0.081–
Windows SQL Web$0.184$0.127–
Windows SQL Std$0.353$0.221–
Linux SQL Std$0.547$0.523–
RHEL SQL Std$0.561––
RHEL HA SQL Std$0.579––

Specs

ComputeValue
vCPUs1
Physical cores1
Threads per core1
Architecturex86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2670 v2 (Ivy Bridge/Sandy Bridge)
CPU makerIntel
Clock speed2.5 GHz
Sustained clock2.5 GHz
Processor featuresIntel AVX; Intel Turbo
BurstableNo
ECU3
MemoryValue
Memory (GiB)3.75
NetworkingValue
NetworkModerate
Network baseline0.3 Gbps
Network peak1.2 Gbps
Enhanced networkingNo
EFANo
IPv6No
Max network interfaces2
IPv4 addresses per interface6
StorageValue
Storage1 x 4 SSD
Local disks1 × 4 GB SSD
EBS optimizedNo
EBS over NVMeNo
Max EBS volumes39
Instance detailsValue
Instance typem3.medium
Familym3
CategoryGeneral purpose
Current generationNo
Normalization factor2
Bare metalNo
HypervisorXen
Placement groupsPartition, Spread
HibernationYes
Nitro EnclavesNo
Boot modesLegacy BIOS

Other m3 sizes

SizevCPUsMemory (GiB)On-demand /hr
m3.medium13.75$0.067
m3.large27.5$0.133
m3.xlarge415$0.266
m3.2xlarge830$0.532

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