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m6i.2xlarge pricing and specs in US East (N. Virginia)

8 vCPU · 32 GiB · Up to 12.5 Gigabit · Intel Xeon 8375C (Ice Lake) previous generation

$0.3840/hour on-demand · $280/month (Linux, Shared)

m6i.2xlarge is a general-purpose EC2 instance with 8 vCPU and 32 GiB, generation 6 of the m family; AWS lists it as a previous generation. On-demand it costs $0.3840 an hour, about $280 a month if it runs all month. A one-year commitment with nothing up front works out at $0.2540 an hour and pays for itself above roughly 482 hours a month; below that, on-demand is cheaper. The three-year options go down to $0.1516 an hour, 61% below on-demand. The newer m6g.2xlarge offers the same size for $0.3080 an hour, 20% less and moves to Graviton. US East (N. Virginia) is already the cheapest region for m6i.2xlarge.

Pricing by OS (hourly, USD, Shared)

OptionLinuxWindowsRHELSUSEUbuntu Pro
On-Demand$0.3840$0.7520$0.4992$0.5090$0.3980
Spot$0.1645$0.4064———
1y Std RI NU$0.2540$0.6220$0.3692$0.3140—
1y Std RI PU$0.2420$0.6099$0.3572$0.3019—
1y Std RI AU$0.2371$0.6051$0.3523$0.2970—
3y Std RI NU$0.1742$0.5422$0.2894$0.2282—
3y Std RI PU$0.1613$0.5293$0.2765$0.2153—
3y Std RI AU$0.1516$0.5196$0.2668$0.2056—
1y Conv RI NU$0.2821$0.6501$0.3973$0.3421—
3y Conv RI NU$0.1948$0.5627$0.3100$0.2487—
1y Compute SP NU$0.2821$0.6501$0.3973$0.3420$0.2933
3y Compute SP NU$0.1948$0.5627$0.3100$0.2487$0.2039
1y EC2 SP NU$0.2540$0.6220$0.3692$0.3139$0.2652
3y EC2 SP NU$0.1742$0.5422$0.2894$0.2282$0.1833

Spot by AZ (7-day p50, Linux): us-east-1c $0.1394 · us-east-1b $0.1630 · us-east-1f $0.2066 · us-east-1a $0.1645 · us-east-1d $0.1854

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.2xlarge (-20%)
Type$/hPrice ΔvCPU per $ ΔSaves / mo
m6g.2xlarge Graviton arch change$0.3080-20%+25%$55
m7g.2xlarge Graviton arch change$0.3264-15%+18%$42
m6a.2xlarge$0.3456-10%+11%$28
m8g.2xlarge Graviton arch change$0.3590-6%+7%$18
m6gd.2xlarge Graviton arch change$0.3616-6%+6%$16
m7i-flex.2xlarge$0.3830-0.3%+0.3%$1
m9g.2xlarge Graviton arch change$0.3914+2%-2%$-5
m8i-flex.2xlarge$0.4022+5%-5%$-13

Cheapest regions for m6i.2xlarge

RegionOn-Demand $/hvs us-east-1Saves / mo
US East (N. Virginia) us-east-1$0.3840current—
US East (Ohio) us-east-2$0.38400.0%$0
US West (Oregon) us-west-2$0.38400.0%$0
Mexico (Central) mx-central-1$0.4032+5%$-14
Asia Pacific (Mumbai) ap-south-1$0.4040+5%$-15
Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) ap-south-2$0.4040+5%$-15

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.

DateOD LinuxOD Windows1y RI3y RISpot p50
2026-11-06$0.3840$0.7520$0.2540$0.1742$0.1645
2026-11-05$0.3840$0.7520$0.2540$0.1742$0.1711
2026-11-04$0.3840$0.7520$0.2540$0.1742$0.1759
2026-11-03$0.3840$0.7520$0.2540$0.1742$0.1767
2026-11-02$0.3840$0.7520$0.2540$0.1742$0.1758
2026-11-01$0.3840$0.7520$0.2540$0.1742$0.1762
2026-10-31$0.3840$0.7520$0.2540$0.1742$0.1768
2026-10-30$0.3840$0.7520$0.2540$0.1742$0.1776
2026-10-29$0.3840$0.7520$0.2540$0.1742$0.1785
2026-10-28$0.3840$0.7520$0.2540$0.1742$0.1801
2026-10-27$0.3840$0.7520$0.2540$0.1742$0.1820
2026-10-26$0.3840$0.7520$0.2540$0.1742$0.1841
2026-10-25$0.3840$0.7520$0.2540$0.1742$0.1847
2026-10-24$0.3840$0.7520$0.2540$0.1742$0.1878
2026-10-22$0.3840$0.7520$0.2540$0.1742$0.1976
2026-10-20$0.3840$0.7520$0.2540$0.1742$0.1953
2026-10-19$0.3840$0.7520$0.2540$0.1742$0.1927
2026-10-18$0.3840$0.7520$0.2540$0.1742$0.1913
2026-10-17$0.3840$0.7520$0.2540$0.1742$0.1875
2026-10-16$0.3840$0.7520$0.2540$0.1742$0.1854
2026-10-15$0.3840$0.7520$0.2540$0.1742$0.1842
2026-10-14$0.3840$0.7520$0.2540$0.1742$0.1837
2026-10-13$0.3840$0.7520$0.2540$0.1742$0.1824
2026-10-12$0.3840$0.7520$0.2540$0.1742$0.1819
2026-10-11$0.3840$0.7520$0.2540$0.1742$0.1815
2026-10-10$0.3840$0.7520$0.2540$0.1742$0.1792
2026-10-09$0.3840$0.7520$0.2540$0.1742$0.1777
2026-10-08$0.3840$0.7520$0.2540$0.1742$0.1762
2026-10-07$0.3840$0.7520$0.2540$0.1742$0.1752
2026-10-06$0.3840$0.7520$0.2540$0.1742$0.1736

All attributes

vCPU
8
Cores / threads per core
4 / 2
Memory
32 GiB
Memory per vCPU
4.00 GiB
Processor
Intel Xeon 8375C (Ice Lake)
Architecture
x86_64
Sustained clock
3.5 GHz
Hypervisor
nitro
Generation
Previous
Burstable
No
Bare metal
No
Free tier eligible
No
Network performance
Up to 12.5 Gigabit
Network baseline / burst
3.125 / 12.5 Gbps
Max ENIs × IPv4 per ENI
4 × 15
IPv6 / ENA / EFA
IPv6 / ENA / —
EBS optimized
Yes
EBS bandwidth (baseline / max)
2500 / 10000 Mbps
EBS IOPS (baseline / max)
12,000 / 40000
EBS NVMe
required
Instance storage
EBS only
GPU
—
Placement groups
cluster, partition, spread
Hibernation / Nitro Enclaves
Yes / Yes
Dedicated hosts
Supported
Boot modes
legacy-bios, uefi
Spot supported
Yes

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