db.m2.4xlarge

db.m2.4xlarge is an AWS RDS size with 8 vCPUs, 68.4 GiB memory (Intel Xeon Family). In US East (N. Virginia) it costs $1.39 per hour on demand ($1,014.70 per month) for PostgreSQL, Single-AZ. It is sold in 9 regions.

Prices by region

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

Region	On-demand
US East (N. Virginia) us-east-1	$1.39
US West (Oregon) us-west-2	$1.39
Asia Pacific (Tokyo) ap-northeast-1	$1.465
US West (N. California) us-west-1	$1.51
EU (Ireland) eu-west-1	$1.512
AWS GovCloud (US-West) us-gov-west-1	$1.58
Asia Pacific (Singapore) ap-southeast-1	$1.595
Asia Pacific (Sydney) ap-southeast-2	$1.595
South America (Sao Paulo) sa-east-1	$1.70

Prices by engine and deployment in US East (N. Virginia)

Option	On-demand /hr	1-yr reserved /hr	3-yr reserved /hr
PostgreSQL · Single-AZ	$1.39	–	–
PostgreSQL · Multi-AZ	$2.78	–	–
MySQL · Single-AZ	$1.32	–	–
MySQL · Multi-AZ	$2.64	–	–

Specs

Compute	Value
vCPUs	8
Physical cores	8
Threads per core	1
Architecture	x86_64
Processor	Intel Xeon Family
CPU maker	Intel
Burstable	No

Memory	Value
Memory (GiB)	68.4

Networking	Value
Network	High
Network baseline	1 Gbps
Network peak	10 Gbps

Storage	Value
Storage	2 x 840
Local disks	2 × 840 GB HDD
EBS throughput	1000 Mbps
EBS baseline bandwidth	1,000 Mbps
EBS max bandwidth	1,000 Mbps
EBS baseline throughput	125 MB/s
EBS max throughput	125 MB/s
EBS baseline IOPS	8,000
EBS max IOPS	8,000

Instance details	Value
Instance type	db.m2.4xlarge
Family	m2
Category	Memory optimized
Current generation	No
Normalization factor	32

Other	Value
Hardware Basis	m2.4xlarge

Compare db.m2.4xlarge

Other generations

vs db.m4.4xlarge

Other m2 sizes

Size	vCPUs	Memory (GiB)	On-demand /hr
db.m2.xlarge	2	17.1	$0.345
db.m2.2xlarge	4	34.19921875	$0.69
db.m2.4xlarge	8	68.4	$1.39

Prices updated 2026-11-12 from AWS public price lists. Compare all AWS RDS sizes.