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m3.large by Amazon Web Services

m3.large is a General purpose Gen3 large server offered by Amazon Web Services with 2 vCPUs, 8 GiB of memory and 32 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0367 USD per hour.
2 vCPU
8 GiB Memory
32 GB Storage
Spare SCore
1707
(All-cores)
1301
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
aws
Name
m3.large
Description
General purpose Gen3 large
Family
m3
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-07-21T01:33:20.937411

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Oregon (US) / us-west-2
0.043 USD/h 0.133 USD/h
Northern Virgina (US) / us-east-1
0.06545 USD/h 0.133 USD/h
Dublin (IE) / eu-west-1
0.0579 USD/h 0.146 USD/h
California (US) / us-west-1
0.0464 USD/h 0.154 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / eu-central-1
0.0572 USD/h 0.158 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / ap-southeast-2
0.053233 USD/h 0.186 USD/h
Sao Paulo (BR) / sa-east-1
0.03805 USD/h 0.19 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / ap-northeast-1
0.0582 USD/h 0.193 USD/h
Singapore (SG) / ap-southeast-1
0.07485 USD/h 0.196 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
2
Hypervisor
xen
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
1
CPU Speed
2.5 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU Model
E5-2670 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
25 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
25 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, xtopology, cpuid, tsc_known_freq, pni, pclmulqdq, ssse3, cx16, pcid, sse4_1, sse4_2, x2apic, popcnt, tsc_deadline_timer, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, pti, fsgsbase, smep, erms, xsaveopt
Ecpus
1.3
Scalability
130

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
8 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
8 GiB
GPU
GPU Count
0
GPU Memory Min
0 MiB
GPU Memory Total
0 MiB
GPUs
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    32 GB
    Storage Type
    nvme ssd
    Storages
    • 32 GB nvme ssd
    NETWORK
    Network Speed Baseline
    0.7 Gbps
    Network Speed Max
    2.8 Gbps
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    Server Description

    An entry-level general-purpose instance with dedicated legacy compute resources and local NVMe SSD storage for basic utility workloads.

    General Purpose

    Amazon Web Services m3.large is a legacy general-purpose instance powered by a 2.5 GHz Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 processor. Utilizing the x86_64 architecture, it features 2 vCPUs on a single physical core, 8.0 GB of RAM, and 32 GB of local NVMe SSD storage. Running on the Xen hypervisor, it delivers a baseline network bandwidth of 1 Gbps. Benchmark data indicates entry-level performance, with stress-ng single-core results in the bottom 25% and multi-core results in the bottom 10%. Memory bandwidth and Geekbench scores also place the instance in the lower performance tiers. Given its older hardware profile, the m3.large is best suited for low-intensity workloads, such as basic web serving, lightweight utility tasks, or legacy development environments that require dedicated but modest compute resources without high throughput demands.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.119Score
    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) 145,793 ops/sec 1,896,415 ops/sec 0.0769 50.00% 50.00% -72.30%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 643,144 ops/sec 11,539,523 ops/sec 0.0557 20.00% 20.00% -43.90%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 980.6 2,411 0.407 10.00% 10.00% -8.60%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 24,363 MB/sec 107,368 MB/sec 0.227 10.00% 10.00% -13.80%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,689 Mops/s 2,363 Mops/s 0.715 10.00% 10.00% -3.30%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 693

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 802

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		1881
    Compression
    		25264
    Encryption
    		753
    Extended Instructions
    		900
    Floating Point Maths
    		3163
    Integer Maths
    		5625
    Physics
    		278
    Prime Numbers
    		12
    Single Threaded
    		1689
    String Sorting
    		3062

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		981
    Database Operations
    		683
    Memory Latency
    		56
    Memory Read Cached
    		21986
    Memory Read Uncached
    		9908
    Memory Write
    		9478

    Stress-ng Raw Scores

    Stress-ng Relative Multicore Performance

    LLM Inference Speed for Prompt Processing

    LLM Inference Speed for Text Generation

    Static Web Server

    Redis

    Alternatives

    Servers of the Same Family

    INSTANCEvCPUsMEMORYGPUs
    m3.medium 14 GiB0
    m3.xlarge 415 GiB0
    m3.2xlarge 830 GiB0

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