m1.medium by Amazon Web Services

m1.medium is a General purpose Gen1 medium server offered by Amazon Web Services with 1 vCPUs, 4 GiB of memory and 410 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0175 USD per hour.
1 vCPU
4 GiB Memory
410 GB Storage
Spare SCore
1,285
(All-cores)
1,285
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
aws
Name
m1.medium
Description
General purpose Gen1 medium
Family
m1
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-09-06T21:59:44.297886

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Oregon (US) / us-west-2
0.0234 USD/h 0.087 USD/h
Northern Virgina (US) / us-east-1
0.023875 USD/h 0.087 USD/h
California (US) / us-west-1
0.02255 USD/h 0.095 USD/h
Dublin (IE) / eu-west-1
0.033567 USD/h 0.095 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / ap-southeast-2
0.0231 USD/h 0.117 USD/h
Singapore (SG) / ap-southeast-1
0.05565 USD/h 0.117 USD/h
Sao Paulo (BR) / sa-east-1
0.0994 USD/h 0.117 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / ap-northeast-1
0.04155 USD/h 0.122 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
1
Hypervisor
xen
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
1
CPU Speed
1.8 GHz
CPU Architecture
i386
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU Model
E5-2651 v2
CPU L1D Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
32 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
256 KiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
256 KiB
CPU L3 Cache
30 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
30 MiB
CPU Flags
fpu, vme, de, pse, tsc, msr, pae, mce, cx8, apic, sep, mtrr, pge, mca, cmov, pat, pse36, clflush, mmx, fxsr, sse, sse2, ht, syscall, nx, rdtscp, lm, constant_tsc, rep_good, nopl, cpuid, tsc_known_freq, pni, pclmulqdq, ssse3, cx16, pcid, sse4_1, sse4_2, x2apic, popcnt, tsc_deadline_timer, aes, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, pti, fsgsbase, smep, erms
Ecpus
1
Scalability
100

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
4 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
4 GiB
GPU
GPU Count
0
GPU Memory Min
0 MiB
GPU Memory Total
0 MiB
GPUs
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    410 GB
    Storage Type
    hdd
    Storages
    • 410 GB hdd
    NETWORK
    Network Speed Baseline
    0.3 Gbps
    Network Speed Max
    1.2 Gbps
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    Server Description

    A legacy general-purpose instance featuring a single dedicated core, 4 GB of memory, and substantial local HDD storage for basic workloads.

    General Purpose

    Amazon Web Services m1.medium is a legacy, first-generation general-purpose instance featuring a single dedicated Intel Xeon E5-2651 v2 core running at 1.8 GHz on the i386 architecture. It is equipped with 4.0 GB of RAM, 410 GB of local HDD storage, and operates under the Xen hypervisor. Performance benchmarks place this instance in the lower percentiles, with a Geekbench single-core score of 489.0 and a multi-core score of 491.0. Memory bandwidth is limited, reaching 7.84 GB/sec for large block reads. Lacking modern instruction sets like AVX and baseline network bandwidth, the m1.medium is best suited for legacy applications, basic file storage, or low-traffic static web serving where high compute performance is not required.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

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    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.079Score
    Precomputed compound score for Cache Intensive workloads. A weighted average (geometric mean) of benchmark scores compared to their medians: score = ∏ (x_i / m_i)^(w_i / Σw). The score of 1.0 represents a synthetic baseline server with the median performance of each component benchmark; 0.5 means roughly half the performance; and 2.0 means twice the performance of that reference profile. Component weights: 50% Redis RPS (pipeline=1, SET), 20% Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET), 10% PassMark Memory Mark (composite), 10% Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3), 10% PassMark single-thread CPU. Rationale for component selection: In-memory key-value store workload, mixing direct Redis performance metrics with memory speed and latency benchmarks, and single-core CPU performance profiles.
    Component Score Weight Impact
    Raw Reference Normalized Target Actual
    Redis RPS (pipeline=1, SET) 120,790 ops/sec 1,917,397 ops/sec 0.063 50.00% 50.00% -74.90%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 350,256 ops/sec 11,681,410 ops/sec 0.03 20.00% 20.00% -50.40%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 544.5 2,418 0.225 10.00% 10.00% -13.90%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 16,603 MB/sec 108,140 MB/sec 0.154 10.00% 10.00% -17.10%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 695.7 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.294 10.00% 10.00% -11.50%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 489

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 491

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 593
    Compression
    		 8580
    Encryption
    		 167
    Extended Instructions
    		 268
    Floating Point Maths
    		 1139
    Integer Maths
    		 2000
    Physics
    		 99
    Prime Numbers
    		 6
    Single Threaded
    		 696
    String Sorting
    		 1308

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 545
    Database Operations
    		 279
    Memory Latency
    		 107
    Memory Read Cached
    		 9911
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 4860
    Memory Write
    		 4912

    Static Web Server

    Redis

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