m5.xlarge by Amazon Web Services

m5.xlarge is a General purpose Gen5 xlarge server offered by Amazon Web Services with 4 vCPUs, 16 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0232 USD per hour.
4 vCPU
16 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
3,480
(All-cores)
1,326
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
aws
Name
m5.xlarge
Description
General purpose Gen5 xlarge
Family
m5
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-06T04:41:05.216257

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Ohio (US) / us-east-2
0.042133 USD/h 0.192 USD/h
Northern Virgina (US) / us-east-1
0.06164 USD/h 0.192 USD/h
Oregon (US) / us-west-2
0.06665 USD/h 0.192 USD/h
Hyderabad (IN) / ap-south-2
0.027467 USD/h 0.202 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / ap-south-1
0.068867 USD/h 0.202 USD/h
Stockholm (SE) / eu-north-1
0.028767 USD/h 0.204 USD/h
Aragón (ES) / eu-south-2
0.042067 USD/h 0.214 USD/h
Quebec (CA) / ca-central-1
0.067067 USD/h 0.214 USD/h
Calgary (CA) / ca-west-1
0.1637 USD/h 0.214 USD/h
Dublin (IE) / eu-west-1
0.095267 USD/h 0.214 USD/h
London (GB) / eu-west-2
0.0695 USD/h 0.222 USD/h
Milan (IT) / eu-south-1
0.0706 USD/h 0.224 USD/h
Paris (FR) / eu-west-3
0.071467 USD/h 0.224 USD/h
California (US) / us-west-1
0.07145 USD/h 0.224 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / il-central-1
0.1197 USD/h 0.225 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / eu-central-1
0.080467 USD/h 0.23 USD/h
United Arab Emirates / me-central-1
0.0962 USD/h 0.235 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / ap-northeast-2
0.03255 USD/h 0.236 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / ap-southeast-3
0.024 USD/h 0.24 USD/h
Singapore (SG) / ap-southeast-1
0.078267 USD/h 0.24 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / ap-southeast-2
0.072567 USD/h 0.24 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / ap-southeast-4
0.089833 USD/h 0.24 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / ap-northeast-3
0.081167 USD/h 0.248 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / ap-northeast-1
0.0916 USD/h 0.248 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / eu-central-2
0.088233 USD/h 0.253 USD/h
Cape Town (ZA) / af-south-1
0.0842 USD/h 0.254 USD/h
Hong Kong (HK) / ap-east-1
0.074933 USD/h 0.264 USD/h
Sao Paulo (BR) / sa-east-1
0.035833 USD/h 0.306 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
4
Hypervisor
nitro
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
2
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
64 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
64 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
2 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, 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
2.6
Scalability
65

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
16 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
16 GiB
Memory Generation
DDR4
Memory Speed
2933 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
      1.25 Gbps
      Network Speed Max
      10 Gbps
      Network Storage Speed Baseline
      1.15 Gbps
      Network Storage Speed Max
      4.75 Gbps
      Inbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      Outbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      IPv4
      0

      Server Description

      A dedicated general-purpose instance featuring a balanced vCPU-to-RAM ratio for moderate utility and development workloads.

      General Purpose

      Amazon Web Services m5.xlarge is a general-purpose instance utilizing the Nitro hypervisor and an x86_64 Intel Xeon 8259CL processor running at 3.1 GHz. It features 4 dedicated vCPUs across 2 physical cores, 16.0 GB of DDR4 RAM, and a baseline network bandwidth of 1 Gbps. This instance does not include local storage or GPU acceleration. Benchmark data indicates that the CPU and memory bandwidth performance generally fall into the bottom 25% tier, though its Passmark memory score remains average. Given its balanced 1:4 vCPU-to-RAM ratio and dedicated CPU allocation, the m5.xlarge is designed for moderate general-purpose workloads. It is best suited for development environments, small-scale web serving, and basic database operations where high-performance computing and local storage are not required.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.26Score
      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) 353,918 ops/sec 1,916,704 ops/sec 0.18 50.00% 50.00% -58.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 2,176,046 ops/sec 11,642,227 ops/sec 0.18 20.00% 20.00% -29.00%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,972 2,417 0.83 10.00% 10.00% -1.80%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 35,266 MB/sec 108,361 MB/sec 0.32 10.00% 10.00% -11.00%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 1,809 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.75 10.00% 10.00% -2.80%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 1,035

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 2,250

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 3996
      Compression
      		 50481
      Encryption
      		 1557
      Extended Instructions
      		 2983
      Floating Point Maths
      		 6060
      Integer Maths
      		 11294
      Physics
      		 535
      Prime Numbers
      		 25
      Single Threaded
      		 1809
      String Sorting
      		 6060

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 1972
      Database Operations
      		 1382
      Memory Latency
      		 54
      Memory Read Cached
      		 22097
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 11335
      Memory Write
      		 10133

      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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