m5
General purpose · Intel Xeon Platinum (x86)
M5 instances run on Intel Xeon Platinum processors and offer a balanced 4 GiB-per-vCPU ratio. They suit broad general-purpose x86 workloads such as web and application servers, small-to-mid-sized databases, and app development environments.
Specs
- Architecture
- x86-64
- Performance
- Fixed
- vCPU
- 2 – 8
- Memory
- 8 GiB – 32 GiB
- Mem / vCPU
- 4 : 1
- On-demand
- $0.0960/hr – $0.3840/hr
Chart
Change the metric and dataset size to see how the numbers shift — and where the data stops fitting in memory.
At 1 GB the dataset fits in RAM on every tested size — these results are CPU-bound.
All results
18 of 18 rows
| m5.xlarge | 1 GB | x86-64 | gp3-baseline | — | 4 | 16 | $0.2139/hr | 39,959±0.7% | 0.80±0.7% | 2.22±0.3% | 2.68±0.3% | 186,794 | 9,990 | 2,497 |
| m5.xlarge | 10 GB | x86-64 | gp3-baseline | — | 4 | 16 | $0.2139/hr | 39,076±0.6% | 0.82±0.6% | 2.24±0.4% | 2.69±0.4% | 182,669 | 9,769 | 2,442 |
| m5.large | 1 GB | x86-64 | gp3-baseline | — | 2 | 8 | $0.1179/hr | 20,293±0.2% | 1.58±0.2% | 3.12±0.2% | 3.88±0.4% | 172,092 | 10,146 | 2,537 |
| m5.2xlarge | 1 GB | x86-64 | gp3-baseline | — | 8 | 32 | $0.4059/hr | 51,445±0.1% | 0.62±0.1% | 2.01±0.1% | 2.41±0.1% | 126,737 | 6,431 | 1,608 |
| m5.2xlarge | 10 GB | x86-64 | gp3-baseline | — | 8 | 32 | $0.4059/hr | 50,632±0.6% | 0.63±0.6% | 2.01±0.4% | 2.41±0.6% | 124,734 | 6,329 | 1,582 |
| m5.xlarge | 1 GB | x86-64 | gp3-max | — | 4 | 16 | $0.3509/hr | 39,479±0.4% | 0.81±0.4% | 2.24±0.2% | 2.69±0.2% | 112,506 | 9,870 | 2,467 |
| m5.xlarge | 10 GB | x86-64 | gp3-max | — | 4 | 16 | $0.3509/hr | 37,821±0.2% | 0.85±0.2% | 2.28±0.1% | 2.74±0.1% | 107,781 | 9,455 | 2,364 |
| m5.2xlarge | 1 GB | x86-64 | gp3-max | — | 8 | 32 | $0.5429/hr | 51,430±0.3% | 0.62±0.3% | 2.02±0.3% | 2.42±0.3% | 94,731 | 6,429 | 1,607 |
| m5.2xlarge | 10 GB | x86-64 | gp3-max | — | 8 | 32 | $0.5429/hr | 50,525±0.3% | 0.63±0.3% | 2.02±0.0% | 2.42±0.2% | 93,064 | 6,316 | 1,579 |
| m5.large | 1 GB | x86-64 | gp3-max | — | 2 | 8 | $0.2549/hr | 19,627±0.3% | 1.63±0.3% | 3.16±0.2% | 3.83±0.2% | 76,997 | 9,813 | 2,453 |
| m5.large | 10 GB | x86-64 | gp3-max | — | 2 | 8 | $0.2549/hr | 15,894±0.6% | 2.01±0.6% | 3.43±0.4% | 4.44±0.6% | 62,354 | 7,947 | 1,987 |
| m5.xlarge | 50 GB | x86-64 | gp3-max | — | 4 | 16 | $0.3509/hr | 18,841±0.1% | 1.70±0.1% | 2.70±0.1% | 3.17±0.1% | 53,692 | 4,710 | 1,178 |
| m5.2xlarge | 50 GB | x86-64 | gp3-max | — | 8 | 32 | $0.5429/hr | 27,315±3.0% | 1.17±3.0% | 2.97±3.2% | 3.91±3.0% | 50,312 | 3,414 | 854 |
| m5.large | 10 GB | x86-64 | gp3-baseline | — | 2 | 8 | $0.1179/hr | 5,447±3.1% | 5.88±3.0% | 11.90±3.5% | 14.91±3.4% | 46,192 | 2,723 | 681 |
| m5.large | 50 GB | x86-64 | gp3-max | — | 2 | 8 | $0.2549/hr | 9,880±47.8% | 4.92±71.7% | 7.30±72.1% | 10.32±51.9% | 38,761 | 4,940 | 1,235 |
| m5.large | 50 GB | x86-64 | gp3-baseline | — | 2 | 8 | $0.1179/hr | 2,700±0.8% | 11.85±0.8% | 17.67±1.1% | 20.63±1.7% | 22,900 | 1,350 | 338 |
| m5.xlarge | 50 GB | x86-64 | gp3-baseline | — | 4 | 16 | $0.2139/hr | 3,335±2.1% | 9.60±2.1% | 14.83±2.8% | 17.64±3.1% | 15,591 | 834 | 208 |
| m5.2xlarge | 50 GB | x86-64 | gp3-baseline | — | 8 | 32 | $0.4059/hr | 5,267±0.4% | 6.08±0.4% | 17.06±0.6% | 22.94±1.4% | 12,976 | 658 | 165 |