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m5.large by Amazon Web Services

m5.large is a General purpose Gen5 large server offered by Amazon Web Services with 2 vCPUs, 8 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0149 USD per hour.
2 vCPU
8 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
1678
(All-cores)
1277
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
aws
Name
m5.large
Description
General purpose Gen5 large
Family
m5
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-07-21T01:33:20.908669

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Oregon (US) / us-west-2
0.038225 USD/h 0.096 USD/h
Ohio (US) / us-east-2
0.037467 USD/h 0.096 USD/h
Northern Virgina (US) / us-east-1
0.04244 USD/h 0.096 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / ap-south-1
0.0315 USD/h 0.101 USD/h
Hyderabad (IN) / ap-south-2
0.033133 USD/h 0.101 USD/h
Stockholm (SE) / eu-north-1
0.028733 USD/h 0.102 USD/h
Calgary (CA) / ca-west-1
0.0344 USD/h 0.107 USD/h
Quebec (CA) / ca-central-1
0.039267 USD/h 0.107 USD/h
Aragón (ES) / eu-south-2
0.0427 USD/h 0.107 USD/h
Dublin (IE) / eu-west-1
0.054667 USD/h 0.107 USD/h
London (GB) / eu-west-2
0.038067 USD/h 0.111 USD/h
Milan (IT) / eu-south-1
0.0232 USD/h 0.112 USD/h
Paris (FR) / eu-west-3
0.0376 USD/h 0.112 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / il-central-1
0.038667 USD/h 0.112 USD/h
California (US) / us-west-1
0.044 USD/h 0.112 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / eu-central-1
0.049733 USD/h 0.115 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / ap-northeast-2
0.038475 USD/h 0.118 USD/h
United Arab Emirates / me-central-1
0.0483 USD/h 0.118 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / ap-southeast-3
0.0212 USD/h 0.12 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / ap-southeast-4
0.0313 USD/h 0.12 USD/h
Singapore (SG) / ap-southeast-1
0.046067 USD/h 0.12 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / ap-southeast-2
0.0479 USD/h 0.12 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / ap-northeast-3
0.038733 USD/h 0.124 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / ap-northeast-1
0.053967 USD/h 0.124 USD/h
Cape Town (ZA) / af-south-1
0.029167 USD/h 0.127 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / eu-central-2
0.059867 USD/h 0.127 USD/h
Hong Kong (HK) / ap-east-1
0.023867 USD/h 0.132 USD/h
Sao Paulo (BR) / sa-east-1
0.024333 USD/h 0.153 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
2
Hypervisor
nitro
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
1
CPU Speed
3.1 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU Model
8175M
CPU L1D Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
32 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
1 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
33 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
33 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, rep_good, nopl, xtopology, nonstop_tsc, cpuid, aperfmperf, tsc_known_freq, pni, pclmulqdq, 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
1.3
Scalability
130

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
8 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
8 GiB
Memory Generation
DDR4
Memory Speed
2666 Mhz
GPU
GPU Count
0
GPU Memory Min
0 MiB
GPU Memory Total
0 MiB
GPUs
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    0 GB
    Storages
      NETWORK
      Network Speed Baseline
      0.75 Gbps
      Network Speed Max
      10 Gbps
      Network Storage Speed Baseline
      0.65 Gbps
      Network Storage Speed Max
      4.75 Gbps
      Inbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      Outbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      IPv4
      0

      Server Description

      A general-purpose virtual instance offering dedicated Intel Xeon processing and balanced memory for entry-level workloads and development environments.

      General Purpose

      Amazon Web Services m5.large is an x86_64 general-purpose instance running on the AWS Nitro hypervisor. It features a dedicated Intel Xeon 8175M processor with 2 vCPUs (1 physical core with hyper-threading) clocked at 3.1 GHz, paired with 8.0 GB of DDR4 memory. The instance does not include local storage or GPU accelerators, and it operates with a baseline network bandwidth of 1 Gbps. Performance benchmarks indicate that the m5.large sits in the lower performance tiers, with single-core and multi-core metrics ranking in the bottom 25% and 10% respectively. Memory bandwidth and database operations also show entry-level performance. Given its balanced 1:4 vCPU-to-RAM ratio and dedicated CPU allocation, this instance is qualitatively cost-effective for low-intensity workloads. It is best suited for small-scale web serving, development environments, and lightweight background tasks.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.14Score
      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) 168,792 ops/sec 1,896,415 ops/sec 0.089 50.00% 50.00% -70.20%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 1,077,131 ops/sec 11,539,523 ops/sec 0.0933 20.00% 20.00% -37.80%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 947.4 2,411 0.393 10.00% 10.00% -8.92%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 22,274 MB/sec 107,368 MB/sec 0.207 10.00% 10.00% -14.60%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 1,743 Mops/s 2,363 Mops/s 0.738 10.00% 10.00% -2.99%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 1,023

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 1,212

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		1996
      Compression
      		24873
      Encryption
      		771
      Extended Instructions
      		1415
      Floating Point Maths
      		2986
      Integer Maths
      		5620
      Physics
      		267
      Prime Numbers
      		12
      Single Threaded
      		1743
      String Sorting
      		2992

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		947
      Database Operations
      		690
      Memory Latency
      		55
      Memory Read Cached
      		21861
      Memory Read Uncached
      		11015
      Memory Write
      		9925

      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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      m5.16xlarge 64256 GiB0
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