db.m4.xlarge

db.m4.xlarge is an AWS RDS size with 4 vCPUs, 16 GiB memory. In US East (N. Virginia) it costs $0.365 per hour on demand ($266.45 per month) for PostgreSQL, Single-AZ. It is sold in 17 regions.

Prices by region

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

RegionOn-demand
US East (N. Virginia) us-east-1$0.365
US East (Ohio) us-east-2$0.365
US West (Oregon) us-west-2$0.365
Canada (Central) ca-central-1$0.402
EU (Ireland) eu-west-1$0.403
EU (Paris) eu-west-3$0.405
EU (London) eu-west-2$0.423
US West (N. California) us-west-1$0.426
EU (Frankfurt) eu-central-1$0.435
AWS GovCloud (US-West) us-gov-west-1$0.436
South America (Sao Paulo) sa-east-1$0.477
Asia Pacific (Seoul) ap-northeast-2$0.504
Asia Pacific (Sydney) ap-southeast-2$0.513
Asia Pacific (Mumbai) ap-south-1$0.514
Asia Pacific (Tokyo) ap-northeast-1$0.53
Asia Pacific (Osaka) ap-northeast-3$0.531
Asia Pacific (Singapore) ap-southeast-1$0.542

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

OptionOn-demand /hr1-yr reserved /hr3-yr reserved /hr
PostgreSQL · Single-AZ$0.365––
PostgreSQL · Multi-AZ$0.73––
MariaDB · Single-AZ$0.35––
MySQL · Single-AZ$0.35––
Oracle Enterprise BYOL · Single-AZ$0.35––
Oracle Standard Two BYOL · Single-AZ$0.35––
SQL Server Web · Single-AZ$0.54––
MariaDB · Multi-AZ$0.7––
MySQL · Multi-AZ$0.7––
Oracle Enterprise BYOL · Multi-AZ$0.7––
Oracle Standard Two BYOL · Multi-AZ$0.7––
Oracle Standard Two · Single-AZ$0.885––
SQL Server Standard · Single-AZ$1.224––
Oracle Standard Two · Multi-AZ$1.768––
SQL Server Enterprise · Single-AZ$2.336––
SQL Server Standard · Multi-AZ$2.448––
SQL Server Enterprise · Multi-AZ$4.672––

Specs

ComputeValue
vCPUs4
Physical cores2
Threads per core2
CPU makerIntel
Sustained clock2.4 GHz
BurstableNo
MemoryValue
Memory (GiB)16
NetworkingValue
Network baseline0.75 Gbps
Network peak2.8 Gbps
StorageValue
EBS baseline bandwidth750 Mbps
EBS max bandwidth750 Mbps
EBS baseline throughput93.75 MB/s
EBS max throughput93.75 MB/s
EBS baseline IOPS6,000
EBS max IOPS6,000
Instance detailsValue
Instance typedb.m4.xlarge
Familym4
Normalization factor8
OtherValue
Hardware Basism4.xlarge

Compare db.m4.xlarge

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Other generations

vs db.m3.xlargevs db.m5.xlarge

Other m4 sizes

SizevCPUsMemory (GiB)On-demand /hr
db.m4.large28$0.182
db.m4.xlarge416$0.365
db.m4.2xlarge832$0.73
db.m4.4xlarge1664$1.461
db.m4.10xlarge40160$3.654
db.m4.16xlarge64256$5.844

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