m2.xlarge by Amazon Web Services

m2.xlarge is a General purpose Gen2 xlarge server offered by Amazon Web Services with 2 vCPUs, 17 GiB of memory and 420 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0435 USD per hour.
2 vCPU
17 GiB Memory
420 GB Storage
Spare SCore
1,720
(All-cores)
1,310
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
aws
Name
m2.xlarge
Description
General purpose Gen2 xlarge
Family
m2
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-09-26T09:40:15.573181Z

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Oregon (US) / us-west-2
0.070433 USD/h 0.245 USD/h
Northern Virgina (US) / us-east-1
0.0697 USD/h 0.245 USD/h
California (US) / us-west-1
0.04365 USD/h 0.275 USD/h
Dublin (IE) / eu-west-1
0.106133 USD/h 0.275 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / ap-northeast-1
0.0688 USD/h 0.287 USD/h
Singapore (SG) / ap-southeast-1
0.108 USD/h 0.296 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / ap-southeast-2
0.10665 USD/h 0.296 USD/h
Sao Paulo (BR) / sa-east-1
0.0577 USD/h 0.323 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
2
Hypervisor
xen
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
2
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
64 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
64 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
256 KiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
512 KiB
CPU L3 Cache
20 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
40 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
1.3
Scalability
65

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
17 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
17 GiB
GPU
GPU Count
0
GPU Memory Min
0 MiB
GPU Memory Total
0 MiB
GPUs
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    420 GB
    Storage Type
    hdd
    Storages
    • 420 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 moderate memory-to-core ratio and bundled local HDD storage for low-intensity workloads.

    Memory OptimizedGeneral Purpose

    Amazon Web Services m2.xlarge is a second-generation general-purpose instance featuring an x86_64 Intel Xeon E5-2665 0 processor running at 2.4 GHz. It is configured with 2 dedicated vCPUs, 17.0 GB of RAM, and a bundled 420 GB local HDD. Operating under the Xen hypervisor, this instance lacks modern CPU instruction sets like AVX and AES-NI, resulting in lower-tier benchmark performance. Its single-core stress-ng score sits in the bottom 25%, while its multi-core CPU and memory bandwidth benchmarks fall in the bottom 10% of tested servers. With a baseline network bandwidth of 0 Gbps and no GPU acceleration, the m2.xlarge is best suited for legacy general-purpose applications, basic file hosting, or low-intensity background tasks that require a moderate memory-to-core ratio without demanding high compute or throughput capabilities.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.093Score
    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) 105,502 ops/sec 1,919,696 ops/sec 0.055 50.00% 50.00% -76.50%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 358,573 ops/sec 11,736,081 ops/sec 0.0306 20.00% 20.00% -50.20%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,707 2,418 0.706 10.00% 10.00% -3.42%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 23,578 MB/sec 108,260 MB/sec 0.218 10.00% 10.00% -14.10%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,596 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.675 10.00% 10.00% -3.85%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 651

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 778

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 1271
    Compression
    		 24600
    Encryption
    		 266
    Extended Instructions
    		 597
    Floating Point Maths
    		 2898
    Integer Maths
    		 5310
    Physics
    		 269
    Prime Numbers
    		 12
    Single Threaded
    		 1596
    String Sorting
    		 2895

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 1707
    Database Operations
    		 854
    Memory Latency
    		 57
    Memory Read Cached
    		 20953
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 10793
    Memory Write
    		 9789

    Stress-ng Raw Scores

    Stress-ng Relative Multicore Performance

    Static Web Server

    Redis

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