m5.2xlarge

General purpose · Intel Xeon Platinum (x86)

PostgreSQL benchmark results for the m5.2xlarge AWS EC2 instance with 8 vCPU, 32 GiB RAM, and x86-64 architecture.

Compute

vCPU
8
Memory
32 GiB
Mem / vCPU
4 : 1

Platform

Family
m5
Architecture
x86-64
Performance
Fixed

Cost & region

On-demand
$0.3840/hr~$280/mo
Region
us-east-1

Chart

Change the metric and disk to see how the numbers shift as the dataset grows — and where it stops fitting in memory.

Open markers sit past the RAM limit (~24 GB of 32 GiB): the dataset no longer fits in cache, so the working set spills to disk and throughput drops.

All results

6 of 6 rows
m5.2xlarge PostgreSQL benchmark results
1 GBgp3-baseline51,445±0.1%126,7370.62±0.1%2.01±0.1%2.41±0.1%6,4311,608
10 GBgp3-baseline50,632±0.6%124,7340.63±0.6%2.01±0.4%2.41±0.6%6,3291,582
1 GBgp3-max51,430±0.3%94,7310.62±0.3%2.02±0.3%2.42±0.3%6,4291,607
10 GBgp3-max50,525±0.3%93,0640.63±0.3%2.02±0.0%2.42±0.2%6,3161,579
50 GBgp3-max27,315±3.0%50,3121.17±3.0%2.97±3.2%3.91±3.0%3,414854
50 GBgp3-baseline5,267±0.4%12,9766.08±0.4%17.06±0.6%22.94±1.4%658165