db.x2m.xlarge pricing and specs in EU (Ireland)
4 vCPU · 128 GiB · Up to 25 Gbps · Intel Xeon Scalable Ice Lake
—/hour on-demand · —/month (MySQL, Single-AZ)
db.x2m.xlarge is a high-memory RDS instance with 4 vCPU and 128 GiB, generation 2 of the x family.
Pricing by engine (hourly, USD, Single-AZ)
| Option | MySQL | PostgreSQL | MariaDB | Aurora MySQL | Aurora PostgreSQL | Oracle SE2 | SQL Server Express | SQL Server Web | SQL Server Standard | SQL Server Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| On-Demand | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | $2.2830 | $2.2830 |
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 → db.x2g.xlarge (—)| Type | $/h | Price Δ | vCPU per $ Δ | Saves / mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| db.x2g.xlarge Graviton arch change | $0.7820 | — | — | — |
| db.x2iedn.xlarge | $2.2830 | — | — | — |
Cheapest regions for db.x2m.xlarge
Cross-region data is rebuilt nightly; check back after the next catalog build.
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 (eu-west-1)
Daily snapshots since the catalog started tracking this type; a row is added whenever a headline price changes.
| Date | OD MySQL | OD Windows | 1y RI | 3y RI | Spot p50 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-22 | — | — | — | — | — |
All attributes
- vCPU
- 4
- Cores / threads per core
- —
- Memory
- 128 GiB
- Memory per vCPU
- 32.00 GiB
- Processor
- Intel Xeon Scalable Ice Lake
- Architecture
- x86_64
- Sustained clock
- —
- Hypervisor
- —
- Generation
- Current
- Burstable
- No
- Bare metal
- No
- Free tier eligible
- No
- Network performance
- Up to 25 Gbps
- Network baseline / burst
- —
- Max ENIs × IPv4 per ENI
- —
- IPv6 / ENA / EFA
- — / — / —
- EBS optimized
- —
- EBS bandwidth (baseline / max)
- —
- EBS IOPS (baseline / max)
- —
- EBS NVMe
- —
- Instance storage
- 118 GB NVMe SSD
- GPU
- —
- Placement groups
- —
- Hibernation / Nitro Enclaves
- — / —
- Dedicated hosts
- —
- Boot modes
- —
- Spot supported
- —
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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