m5.large
General purpose · Intel Xeon Platinum (x86)
PostgreSQL benchmark results for the m5.large AWS EC2 instance with 2 vCPU, 8 GiB RAM, and x86-64 architecture.
Compute
- vCPU
- 2
- Memory
- 8 GiB
- Mem / vCPU
- 4 : 1
Platform
- Family
- m5
- Architecture
- x86-64
- Performance
- Fixed
Cost & region
- On-demand
- $0.0960/hr~$70/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 (~6 GB of 8 GiB): the dataset no longer fits in cache, so the working set spills to disk and throughput drops.
All results
6 of 6 rows
| 1 GB | gp3-baseline | 20,293±0.2% | 172,092 | 1.58±0.2% | 3.12±0.2% | 3.88±0.4% | 10,146 | 2,537 |
| 1 GB | gp3-max | 19,627±0.3% | 76,997 | 1.63±0.3% | 3.16±0.2% | 3.83±0.2% | 9,813 | 2,453 |
| 10 GB | gp3-max | 15,894±0.6% | 62,354 | 2.01±0.6% | 3.43±0.4% | 4.44±0.6% | 7,947 | 1,987 |
| 50 GB | gp3-max | 14,227±0.6% | 55,815 | 2.25±0.6% | 3.29±0.6% | 4.03±0.8% | 7,114 | 1,778 |
| 10 GB | gp3-baseline | 5,447±3.1% | 46,192 | 5.88±3.0% | 11.90±3.5% | 14.91±3.4% | 2,723 | 681 |
| 50 GB | gp3-baseline | 2,700±0.8% | 22,900 | 11.85±0.8% | 17.67±1.1% | 20.63±1.7% | 1,350 | 338 |