m1.small by Amazon Web Services
(All-cores)
(Single-core)
Specifications
Server Metadata
Vendor ID | aws |
Name | m1.small |
Description | General purpose Gen1 small |
Family | m1 |
Hw Virt | |
Status | active |
Observed At | 2026-07-12T09:32:02.263498 |
Availability
| REGION / ID | SPOT | ONDEMAND |
|---|---|---|
Northern Virgina (US) / us-east-1 | 0.011075 USD/h | 0.044 USD/h |
Oregon (US) / us-west-2 | 0.0137 USD/h | 0.044 USD/h |
California (US) / us-west-1 | 0.0108 USD/h | 0.047 USD/h |
Dublin (IE) / eu-west-1 | 0.018833 USD/h | 0.047 USD/h |
Singapore (SG) / ap-southeast-1 | 0.01845 USD/h | 0.058 USD/h |
Sydney (AU) / ap-southeast-2 | 0.019 USD/h | 0.058 USD/h |
Sao Paulo (BR) / sa-east-1 | 0.0475 USD/h | 0.058 USD/h |
Tokyo (JP) / ap-northeast-1 | 0.02735 USD/h | 0.061 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 | 2 GiB |
Memory Amount Actual | 2 GiB |
| GPU | |
|---|---|
GPU Count | 0 |
GPU Memory Min | 0 MiB |
GPU Memory Total | 0 MiB |
GPUs |
| STORAGE | |
|---|---|
Storage Size | 160 GB |
Storage Type | hdd |
Storages |
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| 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, low-resource general-purpose instance featuring a single dedicated core, bundled HDD storage, and basic utility processing capabilities.
Amazon Web Services m1.small 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. Managed via the Xen hypervisor, it is equipped with 2.0 GB of system memory and 160 GB of local HDD storage. The instance lacks GPU accelerators and has a baseline network bandwidth of 0 Gbps. Performance benchmarks consistently rank in the bottom 10%, with a Geekbench single-core score of 490.0 and a Passmark CPU score of 949.92. Lacking modern instruction sets like AVX and AMX, its hardware AES support provides basic cryptographic capabilities. The m1.small is qualitatively positioned as a low-resource legacy option, suitable primarily for basic utility scripting, lightweight testing, or low-traffic static web serving.
Economics
Performance
Workload Profiles
Memory Bandwidth
Compression
OpenSSL
Geekbench Single-Core
Geekbench Multi-Core
Passmark CPU Scores
| BENCHMARK | SCORE |
|---|---|
Mark | 950 |
Compression | 12551 |
Encryption | 345 |
Extended Instructions | 429 |
Floating Point Maths | 1994 |
Integer Maths | 2672 |
Physics | 148 |
Prime Numbers | 8 |
Single Threaded | 1157 |
String Sorting | 1555 |
Passmark Memory Scores
| BENCHMARK | SCORE |
|---|---|
Memory Mark | 694 |
Database Operations | 456 |
Memory Latency | 80 |
Memory Read Cached | 15953 |
Memory Read Uncached | 6666 |
Memory Write | 6700 |
Static Web Server
Redis
Alternatives
Servers of the Same Family
| INSTANCE | vCPUs | MEMORY | GPUs |
|---|---|---|---|
| m1.medium | 1 | 4 GiB | 0 |
| m1.large | 2 | 8 GiB | 0 |
| m1.xlarge | 4 | 15 GiB | 0 |
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