m4.large

m4.large is an AWS EC2 instance with 2 vCPUs, 8 GiB memory (Intel Xeon E5-2676 v3 (Haswell)). In US East (N. Virginia) it costs $0.1 per hour on demand ($73.00 per month) for Linux; a 1-year reserved instance with no upfront costs $0.062 per hour, 38% less. Spot capacity is about $0.0299 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$0.1$0.0299$0.062$0.0432$0.0712$0.0497
US East (Ohio) us-east-2$0.1$0.0321$0.062$0.0432$0.0712$0.0497
US West (Oregon) us-west-2$0.1$0.0397$0.062$0.0432$0.0712$0.0497
Asia Pacific (Mumbai) ap-south-1$0.105$0.0353$0.0654$0.0443$0.0752$0.0509
Canada (Central) ca-central-1$0.111$0.0426$0.0683$0.0475$0.0785$0.0546
EU (Ireland) eu-west-1$0.111$0.0463$0.0756$0.054$0.0869$0.0621
EU (London) eu-west-2$0.116$0.0372$0.0787$0.0572$0.0906$0.0658
US West (N. California) us-west-1$0.117$0.0453$0.0851$0.0583$0.0978$0.0671
EU (Frankfurt) eu-central-1$0.12$0.0495$0.0819$0.0605$0.0942$0.0696
Asia Pacific (Seoul) ap-northeast-2$0.123$0.0402$0.0735$0.054$0.0845$0.0621
Asia Pacific (Singapore) ap-southeast-1$0.125$0.0478$0.0777$0.0529$0.0894$0.0609
Asia Pacific (Sydney) ap-southeast-2$0.125$0.048$0.084$0.0605$0.0966$0.0696
AWS GovCloud (US-West) us-gov-west-1$0.126–$0.084$0.0562$0.0966$0.0646
Asia Pacific (Tokyo) ap-northeast-1$0.129$0.0462$0.0871$0.0637$0.1002$0.0733
Asia Pacific (Osaka) ap-northeast-3$0.129$0.0449$0.0871$0.0637$0.1002$0.0733
South America (Sao Paulo) sa-east-1$0.159$0.0332$0.0903$0.0691$0.1038$0.0795
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$0.1$0.062$0.0432
Ubuntu Pro$0.1035––
RHEL$0.1288$0.0908$0.072
RHEL HA$0.1638$0.1258$0.107
Linux SQL Web$0.1676$0.1296$0.1108
Windows$0.192$0.154$0.1352
RHEL SQL Web$0.1964––
SUSE$0.2$0.095$0.069
Windows SQL Web$0.24$0.194$0.142
Linux SQL Std$0.58$0.542$0.5232
RHEL SQL Std$0.6088––
RHEL HA SQL Std$0.6438––
Windows SQL Std$0.672$0.634$0.6152

Specs

ComputeValue
vCPUs2
Physical cores1
Threads per core2
Architecturex86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2676 v3 (Haswell)
CPU makerIntel
Clock speed2.4 GHz
Sustained clock2.4 GHz
Processor featuresIntel AVX; Intel AVX2; Intel Turbo
BurstableNo
ECU6.5
MemoryValue
Memory (GiB)8
NetworkingValue
NetworkModerate
Network baseline0.45 Gbps
Network peak1.2 Gbps
Enhanced networkingNo
EFANo
IPv6Yes
Max network interfaces2
IPv4 addresses per interface10
StorageValue
StorageEBS only
EBS optimizedYes
EBS over NVMeNo
EBS throughput450 Mbps
EBS baseline bandwidth450 Mbps
EBS max bandwidth450 Mbps
EBS baseline throughput56.25 MB/s
EBS max throughput56.25 MB/s
EBS baseline IOPS3,600
EBS max IOPS3,600
Max EBS volumes40
Instance detailsValue
Instance typem4.large
Familym4
CategoryGeneral purpose
Current generationYes
Normalization factor4
Bare metalNo
HypervisorXen
Placement groupsCluster, Partition, Spread
HibernationYes
Nitro EnclavesNo
Boot modesLegacy BIOS

Compare m4.large

Burstable

vs t3.largevs t2.large

Compute and memory optimized

vs c4.largevs r4.large

Other generations

vs m3.largevs m5.large

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.