The m2.xlarge is a memory optimised instance in the m2 family with 2 vCPU and 17.1 GiB of memory on Intel Xeon Family. It costs $178.85 a month on-demand in us-east-1 (N. Virginia) and is offered in 8 regions.
The list price has not changed in this window. Spot moves with demand and is read every few minutes.
First year, 3 instances
Spot saves $4,820 a year
Reserved capacity is billed every hour of the month whether it runs or not. A 1-yr reservation is cheaper once these run more than 11 h a day.
13.2g CO₂ an hour in us-east-1
9.6 kg a month. Grid 322 g per kWh.
Lowest-carbon regions for this type. The dirtiest emits 11× the cleanest.
| $178.85 | $42.49 | 76% | 8 | |
| $178.85 | $44.97 | 75% | 13 | |
| $200.75 | $74.02 | 63% | 13 | |
| $200.75 | $42.41 | 79% | 8 | |
| $209.51 | $71.03 | 66% | 21 | |
| $216.08 | $74.46 | 66% | 32 | |
| $216.08 | $77.38 | 64% | 17 | |
| $235.79 | $34.38 | 85% | 3 |
curl "https://prices.cloudadapt.io/api/v1/compute/aws/m2.xlarge?region=us-east-1"
List prices from AWS in US dollars, before discounts, credits and taxes. A month is 730 hours, a year 8,760. AWS pricing page