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m5a.2xlarge by Amazon Web Services

m5a.2xlarge is a General purpose [AMD processors] Gen5 2xlarge server offered by Amazon Web Services with 8 vCPUs, 32 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0966 USD per hour.
8 vCPU
32 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
2361
(All-cores)
591
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
aws
Name
m5a.2xlarge
Description
General purpose [AMD processors] Gen5 2xlarge
Family
m5a
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-08-05T23:33:29.979461

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Mumbai (IN) / ap-south-1
0.1015 USD/h 0.222 USD/h
Northern Virgina (US) / us-east-1
0.15794 USD/h 0.344 USD/h
Ohio (US) / us-east-2
0.1348 USD/h 0.344 USD/h
Oregon (US) / us-west-2
0.1673 USD/h 0.344 USD/h
Quebec (CA) / ca-central-1
0.1908 USD/h 0.384 USD/h
Dublin (IE) / eu-west-1
0.248933 USD/h 0.384 USD/h
London (GB) / eu-west-2
0.210633 USD/h 0.4 USD/h
Milan (IT) / eu-south-1
0.244767 USD/h 0.404 USD/h
California (US) / us-west-1
0.20445 USD/h 0.404 USD/h
Paris (FR) / eu-west-3
0.199633 USD/h 0.404 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / eu-central-1
0.208133 USD/h 0.416 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / ap-northeast-2
0.1457 USD/h 0.424 USD/h
Singapore (SG) / ap-southeast-1
0.219633 USD/h 0.432 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / ap-southeast-2
0.2434 USD/h 0.432 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / ap-northeast-1
0.2096 USD/h 0.448 USD/h
Sao Paulo (BR) / sa-east-1
0.1541 USD/h 0.552 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
8
Hypervisor
nitro
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
4
CPU Speed
2.5 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
AMD
CPU Family
EPYC
CPU Model
7571
CPU L1D Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
128 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
64 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
256 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
512 KiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
2 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
8 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
8 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, ht, syscall, nx, mmxext, fxsr_opt, pdpe1gb, rdtscp, lm, constant_tsc, rep_good, nopl, nonstop_tsc, cpuid, extd_apicid, aperfmperf, tsc_known_freq, pni, pclmulqdq, ssse3, fma, cx16, sse4_1, sse4_2, movbe, popcnt, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, cmp_legacy, cr8_legacy, abm, sse4a, misalignsse, 3dnowprefetch, topoext, perfctr_core, vmmcall, fsgsbase, bmi1, avx2, smep, bmi2, rdseed, adx, smap, clflushopt, sha_ni, xsaveopt, xsavec, xgetbv1, clzero, xsaveerptr, arat, npt, nrip_save
Ecpus
4
Scalability
100

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
32 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
32 GiB
Memory Generation
DDR4
Memory Speed
2667 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
      2.5 Gbps
      Network Speed Max
      10 Gbps
      Network Storage Speed Baseline
      1.58 Gbps
      Network Storage Speed Max
      2.88 Gbps
      Inbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      Outbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      IPv4
      0

      Server Description

      A balanced general-purpose instance featuring dedicated AMD EPYC processors and DDR4 memory for cost-conscious, moderate-scale workloads.

      General Purpose

      Amazon Web Services m5a.2xlarge is a general-purpose instance featuring an AMD EPYC 7571 processor with 8 vCPUs, 4 physical cores, and 32.0 GB of DDR4 memory. Operating on the x86_64 architecture under the Nitro hypervisor, it provides a dedicated CPU allocation at 2.5 GHz but lacks local storage and GPU accelerators. Performance benchmarks place the instance primarily in the lower tiers, with single-core CPU and memory bandwidth tests scoring in the bottom 10% to 25%, though Passmark CPU encryption and memory scores reach average levels. Qualitatively, the m5a.2xlarge serves as a budget-conscious general-purpose option, trading off high-end compute and memory speeds for a balanced resource allocation. It is best suited for moderate workloads such as basic web serving, development environments, and light database operations.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.292Score
      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) 434,571 ops/sec 1,910,660 ops/sec 0.227 50.00% 50.00% -52.40%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 2,841,740 ops/sec 11,608,287 ops/sec 0.245 20.00% 20.00% -24.50%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,927 2,416 0.797 10.00% 10.00% -2.24%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 27,900 MB/sec 107,896 MB/sec 0.259 10.00% 10.00% -12.60%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 1,433 Mops/s 2,364 Mops/s 0.606 10.00% 10.00% -4.89%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 729

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 2,960

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 6872
      Compression
      		 88314
      Encryption
      		 6484
      Extended Instructions
      		 3253
      Floating Point Maths
      		 10922
      Integer Maths
      		 20747
      Physics
      		 604
      Prime Numbers
      		 22
      Single Threaded
      		 1433
      String Sorting
      		 12236

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 1927
      Database Operations
      		 1986
      Memory Latency
      		 61
      Memory Read Cached
      		 14929
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 11611
      Memory Write
      		 8190

      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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      m5a.16xlarge 64256 GiB0
      m5a.24xlarge 96384 GiB0

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