db.m9g.xlarge pricing and specs in US East (N. Virginia)
4 vCPU · 16 GiB · Up to 15 Gigabit · AWS Graviton5 Graviton
$0.3660/hour on-demand · $267/month (MySQL, Single-AZ)
db.m9g.xlarge is a general-purpose RDS instance with 4 vCPU and 16 GiB, generation 9 of the m family on AWS Graviton (Arm). On-demand it costs $0.3660 an hour, about $267 a month if it runs all month. There is no newer generation at this size in US East (N. Virginia). US East (N. Virginia) is already the cheapest region for db.m9g.xlarge.
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 | $0.3660 | $0.3660 | $0.3660 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
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.
Already GravitonNo newer generation of this size is priced in US East (N. Virginia).
Cheapest regions for db.m9g.xlarge
| Region | On-Demand $/h | vs us-east-1 | Saves / mo |
|---|---|---|---|
| US East (N. Virginia) us-east-1 | $0.3660 | current | — |
| US East (Ohio) us-east-2 | $0.3660 | 0.0% | $0 |
| US West (Oregon) us-west-2 | $0.3660 | 0.0% | $0 |
| EU (Frankfurt) eu-central-1 | $0.4360 | +19% | $-51 |
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 MySQL | OD Windows | 1y RI | 3y RI | Spot p50 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-22 | $0.3660 | — | — | — | — |
All attributes
- vCPU
- 4
- Cores / threads per core
- —
- Memory
- 16 GiB
- Memory per vCPU
- 4.00 GiB
- Processor
- AWS Graviton5
- Architecture
- arm64
- Sustained clock
- —
- Hypervisor
- —
- Generation
- Current
- Burstable
- No
- Bare metal
- No
- Free tier eligible
- No
- Network performance
- Up to 15 Gigabit
- 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
- EBS only
- 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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