m2.4xlarge by Amazon Web Services

m2.4xlarge is a General purpose Gen2 4xlarge server offered by Amazon Web Services with 8 vCPUs, 68 GiB of memory and 1.68 TB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.2236 USD per hour.
8 vCPU
68 GiB Memory
1.68 TB Storage
Spare SCore
6,557
(All-cores)
1,230
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
aws
Name
m2.4xlarge
Description
General purpose Gen2 4xlarge
Family
m2
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-29T02:46:22.915229

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Northern Virgina (US) / us-east-1
0.26835 USD/h 0.98 USD/h
Oregon (US) / us-west-2
0.3319 USD/h 0.98 USD/h
California (US) / us-west-1
0.2711 USD/h 1.1 USD/h
Dublin (IE) / eu-west-1
0.4574 USD/h 1.1 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / ap-northeast-1
0.3431 USD/h 1.15 USD/h
Singapore (SG) / ap-southeast-1
0.3204 USD/h 1.183 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / ap-southeast-2
0.5163 USD/h 1.183 USD/h
Sao Paulo (BR) / sa-east-1
1.0498 USD/h 1.291 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
8
Hypervisor
xen
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
8
CPU Speed
2.4 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU Model
E5-2665 0
CPU L1D Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
256 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
256 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
256 KiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
2 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
20 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
160 MiB
CPU Flags
fpu, vme, de, pse, tsc, msr, pae, mce, cx8, apic, sep, mtrr, pge, mca, cmov, pat, clflush, mmx, fxsr, sse, sse2, ht, syscall, nx, lm, constant_tsc, rep_good, nopl, cpuid, tsc_known_freq, pni, ssse3, cx16, sse4_1, sse4_2, popcnt, hypervisor, lahf_lm, pti
Ecpus
5.3
Scalability
66.25

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
68 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
68 GiB
ACCELERATORS
Accelerator Count
0
Accelerator Memory Min
0 MiB
Accelerator Memory Total
0 MiB
Accelerators
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    1680 GB
    Storage Type
    hdd
    Storages
    • 840 GB hdd
    • 840 GB hdd
    NETWORK
    Network Speed Baseline
    1 Gbps
    Network Speed Max
    10 Gbps
    Network Storage Speed Baseline
    1 Gbps
    Network Storage Speed Max
    1 Gbps
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    Server Description

    A legacy memory-optimized virtual server featuring high RAM density and large local HDD storage for basic database and batch workloads.

    Memory OptimizedStorage & DatabaseGeneral Purpose

    Amazon Web Services m2.4xlarge is a legacy memory-optimized virtual server running on the Xen hypervisor. It features 8 dedicated vCPUs powered by an Intel Xeon E5-2665 0 processor at 2.4 GHz, paired with 68.0 GB of RAM and a bundled 1680 GB local HDD. Lacking modern CPU instruction sets like AVX and AES, its single-core compute and cryptographic performance fall into the lower percentiles. However, it maintains average multi-core processing and memory bandwidth capabilities. With a baseline network speed of 1 Gbps and no complimentary public IPv4 addresses, this instance is designed for memory-intensive legacy applications, database operations, and basic batch processing that benefit from high memory density rather than raw compute power.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.27Score
    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) 386,884 ops/sec 1,919,289 ops/sec 0.21 50.00% 50.00% -54.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 1,339,729 ops/sec 11,728,058 ops/sec 0.11 20.00% 20.00% -36.00%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,266 2,416 0.96 10.00% 10.00% -0.41%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 53,798 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 0.49 10.00% 10.00% -6.90%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,759 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.75 10.00% 10.00% -2.80%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 662

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 2,481

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 5,120
    Compression
    		 101,626
    Encryption
    		 1,106
    Extended Instructions
    		 2,601
    Floating Point Maths
    		 11,638
    Integer Maths
    		 22,027
    Physics
    		 909
    Prime Numbers
    		 48
    Single Threaded
    		 1,759
    String Sorting
    		 12,060

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2,266
    Database Operations
    		 3,430
    Memory Latency
    		 57
    Memory Read Cached
    		 21,625
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 9,585
    Memory Write
    		 9,502

    Stress-ng Raw Scores

    Stress-ng Relative Multicore Performance

    Static Web Server

    Redis

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