EC2 pricing · General purpose
m7g.2xlarge price in ap-south-1 (Mumbai): per hour & per month
Updated 2026-10-19
$25,000 in credits runs one m7g.2xlarge in Asia Pacific (Mumbai) for about 147 months (credits usually expire in 12 to 24).
m7g.2xlarge (8 vCPU, 32 GiB, AWS Graviton3) costs $0.2333 per hour on demand in Asia Pacific (Mumbai), or $170 for a 730-hour month on Linux.
Larger Kubernetes nodes, monolithic application servers, mid-size PostgreSQL/MySQL and search or queue clusters. Suitable once services need sustained 8 vCPU / 32 GiB.
- On demand
- $0.2333/h
- Monthly (730h)
- $170
- Specs
- 8 vCPU, 32 GiB, AWS Graviton3
Is m7g.2xlarge right for you?
What 32 GiB of RAM runs
- ✓ Production API with steady traffic
- ✓ Self-hosted Postgres or Redis
- ✓ Several containers on one host
- ✕ Tiny side projects (you'll overpay)
- ✕ GPU-bound AI workloads
Full-time CPU
No burst limits: all 8 vCPUs are yours 100% of the time, so it suits steady traffic, builds and background jobs.
Arm (Graviton) checklist
AWS Graviton3 is usually 20% cheaper than the x86 equivalent for similar speed.
Build Docker images for linux/arm64 (or multi-arch). Node, Python, Go, Java and Ruby run fine; check native modules and closed-source agents.
About Asia Pacific (Mumbai)
Among the cheapest regions worldwide and best latency for India.
Moving data between availability zones costs about $0.01/GB each way.
The real bill for a small production setup
The server is rarely the biggest line. A typical setup behind a load balancer in a private network:
About per month$235
Load balancer: $0.0239/h plus about $0.40/month in usage for 1 million requests. NAT gateway: $0.056/h plus $0.056/GB processed. Moving data between availability zones adds $0.01/GB each way. Skip the NAT gateway with public subnets or VPC endpoints to save $41/month. Prices for Asia Pacific (Mumbai) from the AWS Price List API (2026-10-19). Both are covered by AWS credits.
Credits expire before you can use them all
$25,000 would run one m7g.2xlarge for about 12.2 years, but credits usually expire in 12 to 24 months. Spend the surplus on a managed database, staging environments or load testing instead of leaving it unused.
Credits pay on-demand and Spot usage, not upfront Savings Plan or Reserved Instance commitments. Buy commitments only once credits run low.
Database, disk and traffic
Managed database vs running it yourself
A managed PostgreSQL database (RDS db.m7g.2xlarge, single zone, 20 GB) costs about $702/month in Asia Pacific (Mumbai).
Running Postgres yourself on a second m7g.2xlarge costs about $172/month, but you handle backups, upgrades and failover.
Both are paid by AWS credits. Upfront fees for reserved databases are not.
Disk speed limits
Steady disk speed: 2,500 Mbps and 12,000 IOPS.
Short bursts up to 10,000 Mbps and 40,000 IOPS, for about 30 minutes a day, then it drops back.
A busy database or heavy file processing may hit this limit before CPU or memory.
Sending 1 TB a month to users
Straight from the server: about $98.37/month ($0.1093/GB after the first 100 GB).
Through CloudFront: $0. Server-to-CloudFront traffic is free and the first 1 TB out each month is free (then $0.109/GB for India edges).
RDS, CloudFront and transfer prices from the AWS Price List API; VPS prices from Hetzner and DigitalOcean, excluding VAT (2026-10-19).
Full monthly bill calculator
Instances rarely run alone. Add disk, a public IP and traffic to see the real bill and how long credits last.
Compute ($0.2333/h)$170
gp3 storage ($0.0912/GB)$3
Public IPv4 ($0.0050/h)$4
Data out (after 100 GB free)$0
Monthly total$177
Credits last
$1,0005.7 mo
$5,00028 mo
$25,00099+ mo
$100,00099+ mo
Credits usually expire in 12 to 24 months, so long runways are capped by expiry.
On demand vs Savings Plans, Reserved, Spot and Windows
| Pricing | Per hour | Per month | Saving | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| On demand | $0.2333 | $170 | 0% | Credits apply |
| Savings Plan, 1 year | $0.1722 | $126 | 26% | No upfront; credits can't buy the commitment |
| Savings Plan, 3-yr | $0.1172 | $86 | 50% | Compute Savings Plan, no upfront; credits can't buy the commitment |
| Reserved Instance, 3-yr | $0.1061 | $77 | 55% | Standard RI, no upfront; credits can't buy the commitment |
| Spot (average) | $0.1114 | $81 | 52% | Can be interrupted; credits apply |
| Windows on demand | n/a | n/a | n/a | AWS doesn't offer Windows on Arm (Graviton) servers |
m7g.2xlarge in other regions
| Region | Per hour | Per month | vs here | $25k lasts |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Asia Pacific (Mumbai)ap-south-1 | $0.2333 | $170 | — | 147 mo |
| US East (N. Virginia)us-east-1 | $0.3264 | $238 | +40% | 105 mo |
| US East (Ohio)us-east-2 | $0.3264 | $238 | +40% | 105 mo |
| US West (Oregon)us-west-2 | $0.3264 | $238 | +40% | 105 mo |
| EU (Stockholm)eu-north-1 | $0.3468 | $253 | +49% | 99 mo |
| EU (Ireland)eu-west-1 | $0.3638 | $266 | +56% | 94 mo |
| Canada (Central)ca-central-1 | $0.3638 | $266 | +56% | 94 mo |
| EU (London)eu-west-2 | $0.3774 | $276 | +62% | 91 mo |
| EU (Frankfurt)eu-central-1 | $0.3910 | $285 | +68% | 88 mo |
| Asia Pacific (Singapore)ap-southeast-1 | $0.4080 | $298 | +75% | 84 mo |
| Asia Pacific (Sydney)ap-southeast-2 | $0.4080 | $298 | +75% | 84 mo |
| Asia Pacific (Tokyo)ap-northeast-1 | $0.4216 | $308 | +81% | 81 mo |
| Africa (Cape Town)af-south-1 | $0.4318 | $315 | +85% | 79 mo |
| South America (Sao Paulo)sa-east-1 | $0.5202 | $380 | +123% | 66 mo |
Right-size it
Linux, shared tenancy, from the AWS Price List API (2026-10-19). Network: Up to 15 Gbps. Taxes not included. AWS EC2 pricing
m7g.2xlarge in other regions
Alternatives in ap-south-1
- m7g.xlarge · $0.1166/h
- m7g.4xlarge · $0.4666/h
- t4g.2xlarge · 8 vCPU, 32 GiB · $0.1792/h
- m8g.2xlarge · 8 vCPU, 32 GiB · $0.2566/h
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Questions
How much does m7g.2xlarge cost per month in ap-south-1?
$170 on demand for Linux running all 730 hours, before storage, public IPv4 and data transfer.
Can AWS credits pay for m7g.2xlarge?
Yes. Activate credits cover on-demand EC2 usage. They don't cover upfront Reserved Instances or Savings Plan commitments.
Is a Savings Plan worth it for m7g.2xlarge?
A 1-year Savings Plan brings it to $0.1722/h and 3 years to $0.1172/h. While credits last, on demand is usually better because credits can't buy the commitment.
Prices and credit amounts are estimates and may change. Check AWS for current terms.
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