db.m3.medium

db.m3.medium is an AWS RDS size with 1 vCPU, 3.75 GiB memory. In US East (N. Virginia) it costs $0.095 per hour on demand ($69.35 per month) for PostgreSQL, Single-AZ. It is sold in 10 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	$0.095
US West (Oregon) us-west-2	$0.095
US West (N. California) us-west-1	$0.1
EU (Ireland) eu-west-1	$0.104
EU (Frankfurt) eu-central-1	$0.115
AWS GovCloud (US-West) us-gov-west-1	$0.115
Asia Pacific (Tokyo) ap-northeast-1	$0.12
South America (Sao Paulo) sa-east-1	$0.12
Asia Pacific (Singapore) ap-southeast-1	$0.125
Asia Pacific (Sydney) ap-southeast-2	$0.125

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	$0.095	–	–
PostgreSQL · Multi-AZ	$0.19	–	–
MariaDB · Single-AZ	$0.09	–	–
MySQL · Single-AZ	$0.09	–	–
Oracle Enterprise BYOL · Single-AZ	$0.09	–	–
Oracle Standard Two BYOL · Single-AZ	$0.09	–	–
MariaDB · Multi-AZ	$0.18	–	–
MySQL · Multi-AZ	$0.18	–	–
Oracle Enterprise BYOL · Multi-AZ	$0.18	–	–
Oracle Standard Two BYOL · Multi-AZ	$0.18	–	–
Oracle Standard Two · Single-AZ	$0.226	–	–
Oracle Standard Two · Multi-AZ	$0.452	–	–

Specs

Compute	Value
vCPUs	1
Physical cores	1
Threads per core	1
CPU maker	Intel
Sustained clock	2.5 GHz
Burstable	No

Memory	Value
Memory (GiB)	3.75

Networking	Value
Network baseline	0.3 Gbps
Network peak	1.2 Gbps

Storage	Value
Local disks	1 × 4 GB SSD

Instance details	Value
Instance type	db.m3.medium
Family	m3
Normalization factor	2

Other	Value
Hardware Basis	m3.medium

Compare db.m3.medium

Other generations

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Other m3 sizes

Size	vCPUs	Memory (GiB)	On-demand /hr
db.m3.medium	1	3.75	$0.095
db.m3.large	2	7.5	$0.195
db.m3.xlarge	4	15	$0.39
db.m3.2xlarge	8	30	$0.775

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