m4.4xlargeAWS Pricing, Specs & Benchmarks
16 vCPUs • 64GB RAM • us-east-1 • x86_64
About AWS m4 instances (legacy general-purpose)
The m4 family is the fourth-generation general-purpose line, originally launched in 2015 on Intel Xeon E5-2676 v3 (Haswell) and v4 (Broadwell) cores. Two generations newer m-instances (m5, m6i, m7i) now deliver roughly 1.5–2× better price/performance, so m4 has shifted into "legacy" status. AWS still sells it in most major regions and many existing workloads still run on it — particularly older AMIs, EBS-only deployments, and apps where re-validation against newer hardware hasn't happened yet. m4.4xlarge at $0.8000/hr On-Demand (~$576.00/mo) reflects pricing on this older silicon.
The 1:4 vCPU-to-RAM ratio (e.g., m4.large is 2 vCPUs / 8 GB) is the canonical general-purpose mix and hasn't changed across m-generations. If you have an m4 workload and you're CPU- or memory-bound, the migration path is typically: **m5** for a straight performance bump on Skylake, **m6i** for Ice Lake (~15% additional gain at similar pricing), or **m6a / m7a** if you're open to AMD and want the cheapest per-hour rate. **m6g / m7g** are the Graviton equivalents and are usually the cheapest of all if your workload is ARM-compatible.
m4 has no built-in local storage — all storage is EBS over the network. That makes it a poor fit for I/O-heavy workloads (databases doing random writes, log ingestion) without a separately provisioned io2 or gp3 volume. Networking tops out around 10 Gbps on the larger sizes, which is fine for most web traffic but limiting for distributed-system internode chatter. Newer generations (m5n, m6in) offer 25–100 Gbps if that matters.
m4.4xlarge provides 16 vCPUs and 64GB of RAM. Spot is $0.2474/hr (~69% off On-Demand), and because m4 is less in-demand than current-gen, interruption rates tend to be lower than equivalent m5/m6i spot — sometimes a quietly useful niche for cheap batch capacity. If you're evaluating m4 fresh for a new workload, compare it against m5 or m6i in the same vCPU/RAM tier — the newer generations are usually the better deal.
Hardware Specifications
Global Pricing Breakdown
| Region | On-Demand | Spot | Savings |
|---|---|---|---|
| us-west-2Cheapest On-Demand | $0.8000/hr | $0.3001/hr | 62% |
| us-east-2 | $0.8000/hr | $0.3077/hr | 62% |
| us-east-1 | $0.8000/hr | $0.2474/hr | 69% |
| ap-south-1 | $0.8400/hr | $0.3263/hr | 61% |
| eu-west-1 | $0.8880/hr | $0.5275/hr | 41% |
| ca-central-1 | $0.8880/hr | $0.3794/hr | 57% |
| eu-west-2Cheapest Spot | $0.9280/hr | $0.2379/hr | 74% |
| us-west-1 | $0.9360/hr | $0.2618/hr | 72% |
| eu-central-1 | $0.9600/hr | $0.3790/hr | 61% |
| ap-northeast-2 | $0.9840/hr | $0.3783/hr | 62% |
| ap-southeast-1 | $1.0000/hr | $0.4174/hr | 58% |
| ap-southeast-2 | $1.0000/hr | $0.4303/hr | 57% |
| us-gov-west-1 | $1.0080/hr | N/A | - |
| ap-northeast-3 | $1.0320/hr | $0.2452/hr | 76% |
| ap-northeast-1 | $1.0320/hr | $0.3688/hr | 64% |
| sa-east-1 | $1.2720/hr | $0.3124/hr | 75% |
1-Year On-Demand Trajectory
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