m1.small by Amazon Web Services

m1.small is a General purpose Gen1 small server offered by Amazon Web Services with 1 vCPUs, 2 GiB of memory and 160 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0085 USD per hour.
1 vCPU
2 GiB Memory
160 GB Storage
Spare SCore
969
(All-cores)
969
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
aws
Name
m1.small
Description
General purpose Gen1 small
Family
m1
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-09-17T03:19:21.433523

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Oregon (US) / us-west-2
0.0102 USD/h 0.044 USD/h
Northern Virgina (US) / us-east-1
0.010575 USD/h 0.044 USD/h
California (US) / us-west-1
0.0114 USD/h 0.047 USD/h
Dublin (IE) / eu-west-1
0.015633 USD/h 0.047 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / ap-southeast-2
0.0176 USD/h 0.058 USD/h
Singapore (SG) / ap-southeast-1
0.0235 USD/h 0.058 USD/h
Sao Paulo (BR) / sa-east-1
0.0487 USD/h 0.058 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / ap-northeast-1
0.0288 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
    • 160 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, low-resource general-purpose instance featuring a single dedicated core, bundled HDD storage, and basic utility processing capabilities.

    General PurposeBurstable & Budget

    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

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.086Score
    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) 120,817 ops/sec 1,919,696 ops/sec 0.0629 50.00% 50.00% -74.90%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 360,716 ops/sec 11,736,081 ops/sec 0.0307 20.00% 20.00% -50.20%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 694 2,418 0.287 10.00% 10.00% -11.70%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 17,329 MB/sec 108,260 MB/sec 0.16 10.00% 10.00% -16.70%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,157 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.489 10.00% 10.00% -6.90%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 490

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 492

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    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

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 694
    Database Operations
    		 456
    Memory Latency
    		 80
    Memory Read Cached
    		 15953
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 6666
    Memory Write
    		 6700

    Static Web Server

    Redis

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