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 0.0165 USD per hour.
1 vCPU
4 GiB Memory
4 GB Storage
Spare SCore
1260
(All-cores)
(All-cores)
1260
(Single-core)
(Single-core)
Specifications
Server Metadata
Vendor ID | aws |
Name | m3.medium |
Description | General purpose Gen3 medium |
Family | m3 |
Status | active |
Observed At | 2026-05-16T05:32:38.851175 |
Availability
| REGION / ID | SPOT | ONDEMAND |
|---|---|---|
Oregon (US) / us-west-2 | 0.018233 USD/h | 0.067 USD/h |
Northern Virgina (US) / us-east-1 | 0.0191 USD/h | 0.067 USD/h |
Dublin (IE) / eu-west-1 | 0.028133 USD/h | 0.073 USD/h |
California (US) / us-west-1 | 0.02045 USD/h | 0.077 USD/h |
Frankfurt (DE) / eu-central-1 | 0.0313 USD/h | 0.079 USD/h |
Sydney (AU) / ap-southeast-2 | 0.031367 USD/h | 0.093 USD/h |
Sao Paulo (BR) / sa-east-1 | 0.0181 USD/h | 0.095 USD/h |
Tokyo (JP) / ap-northeast-1 | 0.02925 USD/h | 0.096 USD/h |
Singapore (SG) / ap-southeast-1 | 0.03775 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 |
System Resources and Accelerators
| MEMORY | |
|---|---|
Memory Amount | 4 GiB |
| GPU | |
|---|---|
GPU Count | 0 |
GPUs |
| STORAGE | |
|---|---|
Storage Size | 4 GB |
Storage Type | nvme ssd |
Storages |
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| NETWORK | |
|---|---|
Network Speed | 0.3 Gbps |
Inbound Traffic | 0 GB/month |
Outbound Traffic | 0 GB/month |
IPv4 | 0 |
Economics
Performance
Memory Bandwidth
Compression
OpenSSL
Geekbench Single-Core
Score: 668
Geekbench Multi-Core
Score: 669
Passmark CPU Scores
| BENCHMARK | SCORE |
|---|---|
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
| BENCHMARK | SCORE |
|---|---|
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
| INSTANCE | vCPUs | MEMORY | GPUs |
|---|---|---|---|
| m3.large | 2 | 8 GiB | 0 |
| m3.xlarge | 4 | 15 GiB | 0 |
| m3.2xlarge | 8 | 30 GiB | 0 |
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