m5.12xlarge by Amazon Web Services

m5.12xlarge is a General purpose Gen5 12xlarge server offered by Amazon Web Services with 48 vCPUs, 192 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.2424 USD per hour.
48 vCPU
192 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
40,455
(All-cores)
1,384
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
aws
Name
m5.12xlarge
Description
General purpose Gen5 12xlarge
Family
m5
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-11-08T14:47:22.653497

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Ohio (US) / us-east-2
0.4832 USD/h 2.304 USD/h
Northern Virgina (US) / us-east-1
0.59616 USD/h 2.304 USD/h
Oregon (US) / us-west-2
0.746375 USD/h 2.304 USD/h
Hyderabad (IN) / ap-south-2
0.2424 USD/h 2.424 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / ap-south-1
0.816433 USD/h 2.424 USD/h
Stockholm (SE) / eu-north-1
0.374067 USD/h 2.448 USD/h
Quebec (CA) / ca-central-1
0.536767 USD/h 2.568 USD/h
Aragón (ES) / eu-south-2
0.985533 USD/h 2.568 USD/h
Dublin (IE) / eu-west-1
1.101967 USD/h 2.568 USD/h
Calgary (CA) / ca-west-1
2.568 USD/h 2.568 USD/h
London (GB) / eu-west-2
0.6288 USD/h 2.664 USD/h
Milan (IT) / eu-south-1
0.501467 USD/h 2.688 USD/h
Paris (FR) / eu-west-3
0.706333 USD/h 2.688 USD/h
California (US) / us-west-1
0.68895 USD/h 2.688 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / il-central-1
0.709333 USD/h 2.696 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / eu-central-1
0.9699 USD/h 2.76 USD/h
United Arab Emirates / me-central-1
1.051 USD/h 2.825 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / ap-northeast-2
0.900975 USD/h 2.832 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / ap-southeast-3
0.288 USD/h 2.88 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / ap-southeast-4
0.495 USD/h 2.88 USD/h
Singapore (SG) / ap-southeast-1
0.8849 USD/h 2.88 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / ap-southeast-2
1.056167 USD/h 2.88 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / ap-northeast-1
0.919067 USD/h 2.976 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / ap-northeast-3
0.831833 USD/h 2.976 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / eu-central-2
0.553267 USD/h 3.036 USD/h
Cape Town (ZA) / af-south-1
0.736133 USD/h 3.048 USD/h
Hong Kong (HK) / ap-east-1
0.4005 USD/h 3.168 USD/h
Sao Paulo (BR) / sa-east-1
0.3672 USD/h 3.672 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
48
Hypervisor
nitro
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
24
CPU Speed
3.1 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU Model
8259CL
CPU L1D Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
768 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
768 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
24 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
36 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
36 MiB
CPU Flags
fpu, vme, de, pse, tsc, msr, pae, mce, cx8, apic, sep, mtrr, pge, mca, cmov, pat, pse36, clflush, mmx, fxsr, sse, sse2, ss, ht, syscall, nx, pdpe1gb, rdtscp, lm, constant_tsc, arch_perfmon, rep_good, nopl, xtopology, nonstop_tsc, cpuid, aperfmperf, tsc_known_freq, pni, pclmulqdq, monitor, ssse3, fma, cx16, pcid, sse4_1, sse4_2, x2apic, movbe, popcnt, tsc_deadline_timer, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, abm, 3dnowprefetch, pti, fsgsbase, tsc_adjust, bmi1, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, mpx, avx512f, avx512dq, rdseed, adx, smap, clflushopt, clwb, avx512cd, avx512bw, avx512vl, xsaveopt, xsavec, xgetbv1, xsaves, ida, arat, pku, ospke
Ecpus
29.2
Scalability
60.83

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
192 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
192 GiB
Memory Generation
DDR4
Memory Speed
2933 Mhz
ACCELERATORS
Accelerator Count
0
Accelerator Memory Min
0 MiB
Accelerator Memory Total
0 MiB
Accelerators
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    0 GB
    Storages
      NETWORK
      Network Speed Baseline
      12 Gbps
      Network Speed Max
      12 Gbps
      Network Storage Speed Baseline
      9.5 Gbps
      Network Storage Speed Max
      9.5 Gbps
      Inbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      Outbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      IPv4
      0

      Server Description

      A balanced x86 general-purpose instance offering 48 vCPUs and 192 GB RAM for multi-threaded enterprise workloads and database operations.

      General Purpose

      Amazon Web Services m5.12xlarge is a general-purpose instance built on the Nitro hypervisor, featuring an Intel Xeon 8259CL processor with 48 vCPUs (24 physical cores) running at 3.1 GHz and 192.0 GB of DDR4 memory. Lacking local storage and GPUs, it relies on network-attached storage and offers a baseline network bandwidth of 12 Gbps. Benchmark data indicates average multi-core CPU and memory performance, though single-core execution speeds are relatively weak. The instance delivers stable, mid-tier throughput for database operations, Redis SET tasks, and static web serving. Qualitatively, it provides a balanced resource-to-cost profile for workloads requiring high core counts and memory capacity without specialized hardware. It is best suited for multi-threaded application servers, software compilation, and general-purpose enterprise workloads.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      1.7Score
      Precomputed compound score for Cache Intensive workloads. A weighted average (geometric mean) of benchmark scores compared to their medians: score = ∏ (x_i / m_i)^(w_i / Σw). The score of 1.0 represents a synthetic baseline server with the median performance of each component benchmark; 0.5 means roughly half the performance; and 2.0 means twice the performance of that reference profile. Component weights: 50% Redis RPS (pipeline=1, SET), 20% Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET), 10% PassMark Memory Mark (composite), 10% Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3), 10% PassMark single-thread CPU. Rationale for component selection: In-memory key-value store workload, mixing direct Redis performance metrics with memory speed and latency benchmarks, and single-core CPU performance profiles.
      Component Score Weight Impact
      Raw Reference Normalized Target Actual
      Redis RPS (pipeline=1, SET) 4,054,737 ops/sec 1,922,940 ops/sec 2.2 50.00% 50.00% +48.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 23,148,048 ops/sec 11,797,257 ops/sec 1.9 20.00% 20.00% +14.00%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,633 2,406 1.1 10.00% 10.00% +0.96%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 112,992 MB/sec 108,657 MB/sec 1 10.00% 10.00% 0.00%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 1,942 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.79 10.00% 10.00% -2.30%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 1,157

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 10,676

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 34,539
      Compression
      		 592,900
      Encryption
      		 18,601
      Extended Instructions
      		 37,039
      Floating Point Maths
      		 72,983
      Integer Maths
      		 136,495
      Physics
      		 2,470
      Prime Numbers
      		 165
      Single Threaded
      		 1,942
      String Sorting
      		 68,718

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 2,633
      Database Operations
      		 15,468
      Memory Latency
      		 53
      Memory Read Cached
      		 23,413
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 10,424
      Memory Write
      		 10,060

      Stress-ng Raw Scores

      Stress-ng Relative Multicore Performance

      LLM Inference Speed for Prompt Processing

      LLM Inference Speed for Text Generation

      Static Web Server

      Redis

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