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The m3.xlarge is a general purpose instance in the m3 family with 4 vCPU and 15 GiB of memory on Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 (Ivy Bridge/Sandy Bridge). It costs $194.18 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 $5,064 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.
33.9g CO₂ an hour in us-east-1
24.7 kg a month. Grid 322 g per kWh.
Lowest-carbon regions for this type. The dirtiest emits 11× the cleanest.
| $194.18 | $64.02 | 67% | 22 | |
| $194.18 | $53.51 | 72% | 34 | |
| $213.89 | $85.19 | 60% | 33 | |
| $224.84 | $60.37 | 73% | 21 | |
| $229.95 | $83.07 | 64% | 36 | |
| $267.18 | — | 53 | ||
| $271.56 | $80.01 | 71% | 83 | |
| $278.13 | $42.19 | 85% | 8 |
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List prices from AWS in US dollars, before discounts, credits and taxes. A month is 730 hours, a year 8,760. AWS pricing page