The m3.large is a general purpose instance in the m3 family with 2 vCPU and 7.5 GiB of memory on Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 (Ivy Bridge/Sandy Bridge). It costs $97.09 a month on-demand in us-east-1 (N. Virginia) and is offered in 10 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 $2,420 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 18 h a day.
9g CO₂ an hour in us-east-1
6.6 kg a month. Grid 322 g per kWh.
Lowest-carbon regions for this type. The dirtiest emits 11× the cleanest.
| $97.09 | $29.57 | 70% | 6 | |
| $97.09 | $29.86 | 69% | 9 | |
| $106.58 | $39.42 | 63% | 9 | |
| $112.42 | $30.37 | 73% | 6 | |
| $115.34 | $38.47 | 67% | 9 | |
| $133.59 | — | 14 | ||
| $135.78 | $37.60 | 72% | 22 | |
| $138.70 | $20.29 | 85% | 2 |
curl "https://prices.cloudadapt.io/api/v1/compute/aws/m3.large?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