m3.medium by Amazon Web Services

m3.medium is a General purpose Gen3 medium server offered by Amazon Web Services with 1 vCPUs, 4 GiB of memory and 4 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0118 USD per hour.
1 vCPU
4 GiB Memory
4 GB Storage
Spare SCore
1,260
(All-cores)
1,260
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
aws
Name
m3.medium
Description
General purpose Gen3 medium
Family
m3
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-08T14:39:44.690433

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Northern Virgina (US) / us-east-1
0.016375 USD/h 0.067 USD/h
Oregon (US) / us-west-2
0.0205 USD/h 0.067 USD/h
Dublin (IE) / eu-west-1
0.0247 USD/h 0.073 USD/h
California (US) / us-west-1
0.0163 USD/h 0.077 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / eu-central-1
0.0296 USD/h 0.079 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / ap-southeast-2
0.029667 USD/h 0.093 USD/h
Sao Paulo (BR) / sa-east-1
0.0199 USD/h 0.095 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / ap-northeast-1
0.03495 USD/h 0.096 USD/h
Singapore (SG) / ap-southeast-1
0.0377 USD/h 0.098 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
1
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
Scalability
100

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
4 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
4 GiB
GPU
GPU Count
0
GPU Memory Min
0 MiB
GPU Memory Total
0 MiB
GPUs
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    4 GB
    Storage Type
    nvme ssd
    Storages
    • 4 GB nvme ssd
    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 single dedicated vCPU, 4 GB of RAM, and local NVMe SSD storage for lightweight workloads.

    General Purpose

    Amazon Web Services m3.medium is a general-purpose, third-generation instance utilizing the Xen hypervisor. It features a single dedicated Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 vCPU running at 2.5 GHz, paired with 4.0 GB of RAM and a 4 GB NVMe SSD. The instance lacks GPU acceleration and has a baseline network bandwidth of 0 Gbps. Benchmark results place the m3.medium in the lower performance tiers, with stress-ng single-core performance in the bottom 25% and memory bandwidth in the bottom 10%. Due to these resource constraints and legacy hardware, the instance is positioned for lightweight utility tasks, basic development environments, or low-traffic static web serving where dedicated CPU allocation is required but high throughput is not critical.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.096Score
    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) 118,079 ops/sec 2,029,678 ops/sec 0.06 50.00% 50.00% -76.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 480,484 ops/sec 12,408,146 ops/sec 0.04 20.00% 20.00% -47.00%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 840 2,417 0.35 10.00% 10.00% -10.00%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 23,992 MB/sec 108,374 MB/sec 0.22 10.00% 10.00% -14.00%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,698 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.71 10.00% 10.00% -3.40%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 668

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 669

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 1448
    Compression
    		 19017
    Encryption
    		 484
    Extended Instructions
    		 894
    Floating Point Maths
    		 2776
    Integer Maths
    		 3726
    Physics
    		 212
    Prime Numbers
    		 12
    Single Threaded
    		 1698
    String Sorting
    		 2283

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 837
    Database Operations
    		 686
    Memory Latency
    		 55
    Memory Read Cached
    		 22304
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 10919
    Memory Write
    		 10556

    LLM Inference Speed for Prompt Processing

    LLM Inference Speed for Text Generation

    Static Web Server

    Redis

    Alternatives

    Servers of the Same Family

    INSTANCEvCPUsMEMORYGPUs
    m3.large 28 GiB0
    m3.xlarge 415 GiB0
    m3.2xlarge 830 GiB0

    Similar Servers

    INSTANCEVENDORvCPUsMEMORYGPUs

    m3.medium FAQs