m3.medium pricing and specs in US East (N. Virginia)
1 vCPU · 3.75 GiB · Moderate · Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 (Ivy Bridge/Sandy Bridge) previous generation
$0.0670/hour on-demand · $49/month (Linux, Shared)
m3.medium is a general-purpose EC2 instance with 1 vCPU and 3.75 GiB, generation 3 of the m family; AWS lists it as a previous generation. On-demand it costs $0.0670 an hour, about $49 a month if it runs all month. A one-year commitment with nothing up front works out at $0.0480 an hour and pays for itself above roughly 522 hours a month; below that, on-demand is cheaper. The three-year options go down to $0.0261 an hour, 61% below on-demand. The newer m6g.medium offers the same size for $0.0385 an hour, 43% less and moves to Graviton. US East (N. Virginia) is already the cheapest region for m3.medium.
Pricing by OS (hourly, USD, Shared)
| Option | Linux | Windows | RHEL | SUSE | Ubuntu Pro |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| On-Demand | $0.0670 | $0.1300 | $0.0810 | $0.1670 | — |
| Spot | $0.0163 | $0.0697 | — | — | — |
| 1y Std RI NU | $0.0480 | $0.1000 | $0.0580 | $0.0810 | — |
| 1y Std RI PU | $0.0411 | $0.0843 | $0.0555 | $0.0744 | — |
| 1y Std RI AU | $0.0403 | $0.0839 | $0.0547 | $0.0728 | — |
| 3y Std RI PU | $0.0278 | $0.0682 | $0.0419 | $0.0522 | — |
| 3y Std RI AU | $0.0261 | $0.0641 | $0.0405 | $0.0490 | — |
| 1y Conv RI NU | $0.0500 | $0.0960 | $0.0640 | $0.0830 | — |
| 3y Conv RI NU | $0.0430 | $0.0950 | $0.0540 | $0.0760 | — |
| 1y Compute SP NU | $0.0500 | $0.0960 | $0.0640 | $0.0830 | — |
| 3y Compute SP NU | $0.0430 | $0.0950 | $0.0540 | $0.0730 | — |
| 1y EC2 SP NU | $0.0480 | $0.1000 | $0.0580 | $0.0760 | — |
Spot by AZ (7-day p50, Linux): us-east-1b $0.0162 · us-east-1d $0.0163 · us-east-1a $0.0163 · us-east-1e $0.0138
Newer generations of the same size
Same family letter and size in a newer generation, ranked by price. “vCPU per $” uses vCPU as the performance proxy — newer chips usually add more, so it is a floor.
Graviton-eligible → m6g.medium (-43%)| Type | $/h | Price Δ | vCPU per $ Δ | Saves / mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| m6g.medium Graviton arch change | $0.0385 | -43% | +74% | $21 |
| m7g.medium Graviton arch change | $0.0408 | -39% | +64% | $19 |
| m8g.medium Graviton arch change | $0.0449 | -33% | +49% | $16 |
| m6gd.medium Graviton arch change | $0.0452 | -33% | +48% | $16 |
| m9g.medium Graviton arch change | $0.0489 | -27% | +37% | $13 |
| m7gd.medium Graviton arch change | $0.0534 | -20% | +25% | $10 |
| m8gd.medium Graviton arch change | $0.0577 | -14% | +16% | $7 |
| m7a.medium | $0.0580 | -13% | +16% | $7 |
Cheapest regions for m3.medium
| Region | On-Demand $/h | vs us-east-1 | Saves / mo |
|---|---|---|---|
| US East (N. Virginia) us-east-1 | $0.0670 | current | — |
| US West (Oregon) us-west-2 | $0.0670 | 0.0% | $0 |
| EU (Ireland) eu-west-1 | $0.0730 | +9% | $-4 |
| US West (N. California) us-west-1 | $0.0770 | +15% | $-7 |
| EU (Frankfurt) eu-central-1 | $0.0790 | +18% | $-9 |
| Asia Pacific (Seoul) ap-northeast-2 | $0.0910 | +36% | $-18 |
Caveat: instance price is only part of the bill. Cross-region and internet data transfer, latency to your users, data-residency rules and service availability can outweigh a few percent on compute.
Price history (us-east-1)
Daily snapshots since the catalog started tracking this type; a row is added whenever a headline price changes.
| Date | OD Linux | OD Windows | 1y RI | 3y RI | Spot p50 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-06 | $0.0670 | $0.1300 | $0.0480 | — | $0.0163 |
| 2026-11-05 | $0.0670 | $0.1300 | $0.0480 | — | $0.0165 |
| 2026-11-04 | $0.0670 | $0.1300 | $0.0480 | — | $0.0167 |
| 2026-11-03 | $0.0670 | $0.1300 | $0.0480 | — | $0.0169 |
| 2026-11-02 | $0.0670 | $0.1300 | $0.0480 | — | $0.0170 |
| 2026-11-01 | $0.0670 | $0.1300 | $0.0480 | — | $0.0172 |
| 2026-10-31 | $0.0670 | $0.1300 | $0.0480 | — | $0.0173 |
| 2026-10-30 | $0.0670 | $0.1300 | $0.0480 | — | $0.0175 |
| 2026-10-29 | $0.0670 | $0.1300 | $0.0480 | — | $0.0177 |
| 2026-10-28 | $0.0670 | $0.1300 | $0.0480 | — | $0.0178 |
| 2026-10-27 | $0.0670 | $0.1300 | $0.0480 | — | $0.0179 |
| 2026-10-23 | $0.0670 | $0.1300 | $0.0480 | — | $0.0180 |
| 2026-10-22 | $0.0670 | $0.1300 | $0.0480 | — | $0.0179 |
| 2026-10-19 | $0.0670 | $0.1300 | $0.0480 | — | $0.0178 |
| 2026-10-17 | $0.0670 | $0.1300 | $0.0480 | — | $0.0177 |
| 2026-10-15 | $0.0670 | $0.1300 | $0.0480 | — | $0.0177 |
| 2026-10-14 | $0.0670 | $0.1300 | $0.0480 | — | $0.0176 |
| 2026-10-13 | $0.0670 | $0.1300 | $0.0480 | — | $0.0176 |
| 2026-10-06 | $0.0670 | $0.1300 | $0.0480 | — | $0.0176 |
| 2026-10-05 | $0.0670 | $0.1300 | $0.0480 | — | $0.0175 |
| 2026-10-03 | $0.0670 | $0.1300 | $0.0480 | — | $0.0174 |
| 2026-10-02 | $0.0670 | $0.1300 | $0.0480 | — | $0.0174 |
| 2026-09-29 | $0.0670 | $0.1300 | $0.0480 | — | $0.0173 |
| 2026-09-28 | $0.0670 | $0.1300 | $0.0480 | — | $0.0174 |
| 2026-09-27 | $0.0670 | $0.1300 | $0.0480 | — | $0.0175 |
| 2026-09-25 | $0.0670 | $0.1300 | $0.0480 | — | $0.0179 |
| 2026-09-24 | $0.0670 | $0.1300 | $0.0480 | — | $0.0180 |
| 2026-09-23 | $0.0670 | $0.1300 | $0.0480 | — | $0.0184 |
| 2026-09-22 | $0.0670 | $0.1300 | $0.0480 | — | $0.0185 |
All attributes
- vCPU
- 1
- Cores / threads per core
- 1 / 1
- Memory
- 3.75 GiB
- Memory per vCPU
- 3.75 GiB
- Processor
- Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 (Ivy Bridge/Sandy Bridge)
- Architecture
- x86_64
- Sustained clock
- 2.5 GHz
- Hypervisor
- xen
- Generation
- Previous
- Burstable
- No
- Bare metal
- No
- Free tier eligible
- No
- Network performance
- Moderate
- Network baseline / burst
- 0.3 / 1.2 Gbps
- Max ENIs × IPv4 per ENI
- 2 × 6
- IPv6 / ENA / EFA
- — / — / —
- EBS optimized
- No
- EBS bandwidth (baseline / max)
- 1.0 / ? Mbps
- EBS IOPS (baseline / max)
- —
- EBS NVMe
- unsupported
- Instance storage
- 4 GB SSD
- GPU
- —
- Placement groups
- partition, spread
- Hibernation / Nitro Enclaves
- Yes / No
- Dedicated hosts
- Supported
- Boot modes
- legacy-bios
- Spot supported
- Yes
Public AWS list prices (USD), refreshed nightly (catalog 2026-11-06). RI and Savings Plan rates are effective hourly (upfront amortised over the term) and are charged for every hour of the term. Excludes taxes, data transfer and storage. How these numbers are sourced and checked. Not affiliated with Amazon Web Services.
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