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m4.large by Amazon Web Services

m4.large is a General purpose Gen4 large server offered by Amazon Web Services with 2 vCPUs, 8 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0236 USD per hour.
2 vCPU
8 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
1666
(All-cores)
1261
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
aws
Name
m4.large
Description
General purpose Gen4 large
Family
m4
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-08-11T00:29:44.562036

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Ohio (US) / us-east-2
0.043867 USD/h 0.1 USD/h
Oregon (US) / us-west-2
0.0422 USD/h 0.1 USD/h
Northern Virgina (US) / us-east-1
0.053767 USD/h 0.1 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / ap-south-1
0.02385 USD/h 0.105 USD/h
Dublin (IE) / eu-west-1
0.049333 USD/h 0.111 USD/h
Quebec (CA) / ca-central-1
0.0493 USD/h 0.111 USD/h
London (GB) / eu-west-2
0.041567 USD/h 0.116 USD/h
California (US) / us-west-1
0.0519 USD/h 0.117 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / eu-central-1
0.052833 USD/h 0.12 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / ap-northeast-2
0.0429 USD/h 0.123 USD/h
Singapore (SG) / ap-southeast-1
0.052333 USD/h 0.125 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / ap-southeast-2
0.055233 USD/h 0.125 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / ap-northeast-3
0.0404 USD/h 0.129 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / ap-northeast-1
0.046367 USD/h 0.129 USD/h
Sao Paulo (BR) / sa-east-1
0.03755 USD/h 0.159 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
2
Hypervisor
xen
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
1
CPU Speed
2.4 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU Model
E5-2686 v4
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
45 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
45 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, pdpe1gb, rdtscp, lm, constant_tsc, rep_good, nopl, xtopology, cpuid, tsc_known_freq, pni, pclmulqdq, ssse3, fma, cx16, pcid, sse4_1, sse4_2, x2apic, movbe, popcnt, tsc_deadline_timer, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, abm, pti, fsgsbase, bmi1, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, 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
    0 GB
    Storages
      NETWORK
      Network Speed Baseline
      0.45 Gbps
      Network Speed Max
      1.2 Gbps
      Network Storage Speed Baseline
      0.45 Gbps
      Network Storage Speed Max
      0.45 Gbps
      Inbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      Outbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      IPv4
      0

      Server Description

      A legacy general-purpose virtual machine featuring two virtual CPUs and eight gigabytes of memory for basic, low-demand workloads.

      General Purpose

      Amazon Web Services m4.large is a general-purpose, fourth-generation instance featuring an Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 processor with 2 vCPUs, 1 physical core, and 8.0 GB of system memory. Operating on the Xen hypervisor, this x86_64 instance lacks local storage and has a baseline network bandwidth of 0 Gbps. Performance benchmarks place the instance in the lower percentiles, with a stress-ng single-core score of 1260.98 and a multi-core score of 1666.09. Memory bandwidth is also limited, with uncached read speeds at 12.28 GB/sec. Given these performance constraints, including a Passmark database score of 618.18 and Redis SET throughput of 0.75 million operations per second, the m4.large is best suited for low-demand legacy applications, basic development environments, and lightweight background tasks rather than high-throughput database or compute-intensive workloads.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

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      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.112Score
      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) 141,685 ops/sec 1,910,660 ops/sec 0.0742 50.00% 50.00% -72.80%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 605,095 ops/sec 11,608,287 ops/sec 0.0521 20.00% 20.00% -44.60%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 937.6 2,416 0.388 10.00% 10.00% -9.03%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 21,786 MB/sec 107,896 MB/sec 0.202 10.00% 10.00% -14.80%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 1,555 Mops/s 2,364 Mops/s 0.658 10.00% 10.00% -4.10%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 948

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 1,148

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 1825
      Compression
      		 23461
      Encryption
      		 711
      Extended Instructions
      		 1117
      Floating Point Maths
      		 2934
      Integer Maths
      		 5129
      Physics
      		 245
      Prime Numbers
      		 12
      Single Threaded
      		 1555
      String Sorting
      		 2779

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 938
      Database Operations
      		 618
      Memory Latency
      		 61
      Memory Read Cached
      		 19538
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 9575
      Memory Write
      		 9039

      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

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      m4.16xlarge 64256 GiB0

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