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m5a.xlarge by Amazon Web Services

m5a.xlarge is a General purpose [AMD processors] Gen5 xlarge server offered by Amazon Web Services with 4 vCPUs, 16 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0454 USD per hour.
4 vCPU
16 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
1180
(All-cores)
591
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
aws
Name
m5a.xlarge
Description
General purpose [AMD processors] Gen5 xlarge
Family
m5a
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-08-08T07:13:22.015468

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Mumbai (IN) / ap-south-1
0.049167 USD/h 0.111 USD/h
Ohio (US) / us-east-2
0.0726 USD/h 0.172 USD/h
Northern Virgina (US) / us-east-1
0.0878 USD/h 0.172 USD/h
Oregon (US) / us-west-2
0.0884 USD/h 0.172 USD/h
Quebec (CA) / ca-central-1
0.092 USD/h 0.192 USD/h
Dublin (IE) / eu-west-1
0.1137 USD/h 0.192 USD/h
London (GB) / eu-west-2
0.093133 USD/h 0.2 USD/h
Milan (IT) / eu-south-1
0.0646 USD/h 0.202 USD/h
Paris (FR) / eu-west-3
0.0936 USD/h 0.202 USD/h
California (US) / us-west-1
0.10225 USD/h 0.202 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / eu-central-1
0.120267 USD/h 0.208 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / ap-northeast-2
0.08165 USD/h 0.212 USD/h
Singapore (SG) / ap-southeast-1
0.120333 USD/h 0.216 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / ap-southeast-2
0.114233 USD/h 0.216 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / ap-northeast-1
0.109867 USD/h 0.224 USD/h
Sao Paulo (BR) / sa-east-1
0.089667 USD/h 0.276 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
4
Hypervisor
nitro
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
2
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
64 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
64 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
128 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
512 KiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
1 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, vmmcall, fsgsbase, bmi1, avx2, smep, bmi2, rdseed, adx, smap, clflushopt, sha_ni, xsaveopt, xsavec, xgetbv1, clzero, xsaveerptr, arat, npt, nrip_save
Ecpus
2
Scalability
100

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
16 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
16 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
      1.25 Gbps
      Network Speed Max
      10 Gbps
      Network Storage Speed Baseline
      1.085 Gbps
      Network Storage Speed Max
      2.88 Gbps
      Inbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      Outbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      IPv4
      0

      Server Description

      A dedicated general-purpose instance offering balanced memory and compute resources on AMD EPYC hardware for budget-conscious workloads.

      General Purpose

      Amazon Web Services m5a.xlarge is a general-purpose instance featuring an AMD EPYC 7571 processor with 4 dedicated vCPUs, 2 physical cores, and a 2.5 GHz clock speed. Built on the AWS Nitro hypervisor, it includes 16.0 GB of DDR4 memory but lacks local storage and GPU accelerators. Performance benchmarks indicate that the instance generally resides in the lower tiers, with single-core and multi-core CPU performance in the bottom 10% and memory bandwidth in the bottom 25%. However, it achieves average results in CPU encryption tests due to hardware-accelerated AES and SHA_NI support. The m5a.xlarge represents a cost-efficient option for workloads utilizing older-generation AMD hardware, trading raw performance for resource density. It is best suited for general-purpose applications, basic web serving, and development environments with moderate compute demands.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.191Score
      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) 237,546 ops/sec 1,910,660 ops/sec 0.124 50.00% 50.00% -64.80%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 1,532,227 ops/sec 11,608,287 ops/sec 0.132 20.00% 20.00% -33.30%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,690 2,416 0.699 10.00% 10.00% -3.52%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 31,012 MB/sec 107,896 MB/sec 0.287 10.00% 10.00% -11.70%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 1,441 Mops/s 2,364 Mops/s 0.61 10.00% 10.00% -4.82%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 725

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 1,744

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 3670
      Compression
      		 43676
      Encryption
      		 3249
      Extended Instructions
      		 1604
      Floating Point Maths
      		 5449
      Integer Maths
      		 10320
      Physics
      		 382
      Prime Numbers
      		 16
      Single Threaded
      		 1441
      String Sorting
      		 6463

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 1690
      Database Operations
      		 991
      Memory Latency
      		 62
      Memory Read Cached
      		 14883
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 11803
      Memory Write
      		 8104

      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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