m5a.large by Amazon Web Services

m5a.large is a General purpose [AMD processors] Gen5 large server offered by Amazon Web Services with 2 vCPUs, 8 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0228 USD per hour.
2 vCPU
8 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
582
(All-cores)
582
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
aws
Name
m5a.large
Description
General purpose [AMD processors] Gen5 large
Family
m5a
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-09-15T07:51:15.936403

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Mumbai (IN) / ap-south-1
0.025133 USD/h 0.056 USD/h
Oregon (US) / us-west-2
0.04025 USD/h 0.086 USD/h
Ohio (US) / us-east-2
0.0386 USD/h 0.086 USD/h
Northern Virgina (US) / us-east-1
0.04248 USD/h 0.086 USD/h
Quebec (CA) / ca-central-1
0.0478 USD/h 0.096 USD/h
Dublin (IE) / eu-west-1
0.055867 USD/h 0.096 USD/h
London (GB) / eu-west-2
0.042467 USD/h 0.1 USD/h
Milan (IT) / eu-south-1
0.033633 USD/h 0.101 USD/h
California (US) / us-west-1
0.0438 USD/h 0.101 USD/h
Paris (FR) / eu-west-3
0.049167 USD/h 0.101 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / eu-central-1
0.052767 USD/h 0.104 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / ap-northeast-2
0.0394 USD/h 0.106 USD/h
Singapore (SG) / ap-southeast-1
0.052633 USD/h 0.108 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / ap-southeast-2
0.0496 USD/h 0.108 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / ap-northeast-1
0.053433 USD/h 0.112 USD/h
Sao Paulo (BR) / sa-east-1
0.0352 USD/h 0.138 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
2
Hypervisor
nitro
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
1
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
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
64 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
64 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
512 KiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
512 KiB
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, vmmcall, fsgsbase, bmi1, avx2, smep, bmi2, rdseed, adx, smap, clflushopt, sha_ni, xsaveopt, xsavec, xgetbv1, clzero, xsaveerptr, arat, npt, nrip_save
Ecpus
1
Scalability
100

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
8 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
8 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
      0.75 Gbps
      Network Speed Max
      10 Gbps
      Network Storage Speed Baseline
      0.65 Gbps
      Network Storage Speed Max
      2.88 Gbps
      Inbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      Outbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      IPv4
      0

      Server Description

      An entry-level general-purpose virtual machine featuring dedicated AMD EPYC processing and a balanced memory-to-core ratio for lightweight workloads.

      General Purpose

      Amazon Web Services m5a.large is an entry-level general-purpose instance utilizing the AWS Nitro hypervisor and an x86_64 AMD EPYC 7571 processor running at 2.5 GHz. It features 2 dedicated vCPUs, 8.0 GB of DDR4 memory at 3 GHz, and a baseline network bandwidth of 1 Gbps, with no local storage or GPU. Performance benchmarks place this instance consistently in the bottom 10% for CPU, memory bandwidth, and database operations, though its cryptographic performance is slightly higher, ranking in the bottom 25%. Qualitatively, the m5a.large provides a standard 1:4 vCPU-to-RAM ratio on older-generation hardware, offering a cost-efficient option for workloads with low resource demands. It is best suited for lightweight applications, basic web serving, and development or testing environments.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.103Score
      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) 113,830 ops/sec 1,917,397 ops/sec 0.0594 50.00% 50.00% -75.60%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 720,455 ops/sec 11,681,410 ops/sec 0.0617 20.00% 20.00% -42.70%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 913.1 2,418 0.378 10.00% 10.00% -9.27%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 23,488 MB/sec 108,140 MB/sec 0.217 10.00% 10.00% -14.20%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 1,400 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.592 10.00% 10.00% -5.11%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 722

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 956

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 1870
      Compression
      		 21163
      Encryption
      		 1612
      Extended Instructions
      		 775
      Floating Point Maths
      		 2712
      Integer Maths
      		 5101
      Physics
      		 216
      Prime Numbers
      		 10
      Single Threaded
      		 1400
      String Sorting
      		 3263

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 913
      Database Operations
      		 497
      Memory Latency
      		 64
      Memory Read Cached
      		 14571
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 11162
      Memory Write
      		 7816

      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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