m4.16xlarge

m4.16xlarge is an AWS EC2 instance with 64 vCPUs, 256 GiB memory (Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)). In US East (N. Virginia) it costs $3.20 per hour on demand ($2,336.00 per month) for Linux; a 1-year reserved instance with no upfront costs $1.982 per hour, 38% less. Spot capacity is about $0.6699 per hour. It is sold in 16 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$3.20$0.6699$1.982$1.382$2.28$1.59
US East (Ohio) us-east-2$3.20$0.5455$1.982$1.382$2.28$1.59
US West (Oregon) us-west-2$3.20$0.6244$1.982$1.382$2.28$1.59
Asia Pacific (Mumbai) ap-south-1$3.36$0.642$2.094$1.416$2.408$1.629
Canada (Central) ca-central-1$3.552$0.7384$2.184$1.521$2.512$1.749
EU (Ireland) eu-west-1$3.552$1.42$2.419$1.728$2.782$1.987
EU (London) eu-west-2$3.712$0.8399$2.52$1.832$2.898$2.106
US West (N. California) us-west-1$3.744$1.252$2.722$1.866$3.13$2.146
EU (Frankfurt) eu-central-1$3.84$0.9928$2.621$1.935$3.014$2.226
Asia Pacific (Seoul) ap-northeast-2$3.936$0.7297$2.352$1.728$2.705$1.987
Asia Pacific (Singapore) ap-southeast-1$4.00$1.006$2.486$1.693$2.859$1.948
Asia Pacific (Sydney) ap-southeast-2$4.00$1.08$2.688$1.935$3.091$2.226
AWS GovCloud (US-West) us-gov-west-1$4.032–$2.688$1.797$3.091$2.067
Asia Pacific (Tokyo) ap-northeast-1$4.128$0.737$2.789$2.039$3.207$2.345
Asia Pacific (Osaka) ap-northeast-3$4.128$0.4128$2.789$2.039$3.207$2.345
South America (Sao Paulo) sa-east-1$5.088$0.5088$2.89$2.212$3.323$2.544
Reserved and Savings PlansSpot prices by regionWindows prices by regionAzure equivalents

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

Operating systemOn-demand /hr1-yr reserved /hr3-yr reserved /hr
Linux$3.20$1.982$1.382
SUSE$3.30$2.015$1.415
Ubuntu Pro$3.312––
RHEL$3.891$2.674$2.074
Linux SQL Web$4.282$3.064$2.464
RHEL HA$4.787$3.57$2.97
RHEL SQL Web$4.973––
Windows$6.144$4.926$4.326
Windows SQL Web$7.331$5.518$3.949
Linux SQL Std$10.88$9.662$9.062
RHEL SQL Std$11.571––
RHEL HA SQL Std$12.467––
Windows SQL Std$13.824$12.606$12.006
Linux SQL Ent$27.20$25.982$25.382
RHEL SQL Ent$27.891––
RHEL HA SQL Ent$28.787––
Windows SQL Ent$30.144$28.926$28.326

Specs

ComputeValue
vCPUs64
Physical cores32
Threads per core2
Architecturex86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)
CPU makerIntel
Clock speed2.4 GHz
Sustained clock2.3 GHz
Processor featuresIntel AVX; Intel AVX2; Intel Turbo
BurstableNo
ECU188
MemoryValue
Memory (GiB)256
NetworkingValue
Network20 Gbps
Network baseline25 Gbps
Network peak25 Gbps
Enhanced networkingYes (ENA)
EFANo
IPv6Yes
Max network interfaces8
IPv4 addresses per interface30
StorageValue
StorageEBS only
EBS optimizedYes
EBS over NVMeNo
EBS throughput10000 Mbps
EBS baseline bandwidth10,000 Mbps
EBS max bandwidth10,000 Mbps
EBS baseline throughput1,250 MB/s
EBS max throughput1,250 MB/s
EBS baseline IOPS65,000
EBS max IOPS65,000
Max EBS volumes40
Instance detailsValue
Instance typem4.16xlarge
Familym4
CategoryGeneral purpose
Current generationYes
Normalization factor128
Bare metalNo
HypervisorXen
Placement groupsCluster, Partition, Spread
HibernationNo
Nitro EnclavesNo
Boot modesLegacy BIOS

Compare m4.16xlarge

Compute and memory optimized

vs r4.16xlarge

Other generations

vs m5.16xlarge

Other m4 sizes

SizevCPUsMemory (GiB)On-demand /hr
m4.large28$0.1
m4.xlarge416$0.2
m4.2xlarge832$0.4
m4.4xlarge1664$0.8
m4.10xlarge40160$2.00
m4.16xlarge64256$3.20

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