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m5ad.16xlarge by Amazon Web Services

m5ad.16xlarge is a General purpose [AMD processors] [Instance store volumes] Gen5 16xlarge server offered by Amazon Web Services with 64 vCPUs, 256 GiB of memory and 2.4 TB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.6455 USD per hour.
64 vCPU
256 GiB Memory
2.4 TB Storage
Spare SCore
18898
(All-cores)
591
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
aws
Name
m5ad.16xlarge
Description
General purpose [AMD processors] [Instance store volumes] Gen5 16xlarge
Family
m5ad
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-07-27T11:33:31.048931

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Mumbai (IN) / ap-south-1
0.667933 USD/h 2.147 USD/h
Northern Virgina (US) / us-east-1
1.4352 USD/h 3.296 USD/h
Ohio (US) / us-east-2
1.082033 USD/h 3.296 USD/h
Oregon (US) / us-west-2
1.393125 USD/h 3.296 USD/h
Quebec (CA) / ca-central-1
1.46825 USD/h 3.68 USD/h
Dublin (IE) / eu-west-1
1.658067 USD/h 3.68 USD/h
London (GB) / eu-west-2
1.706933 USD/h 3.84 USD/h
Paris (FR) / eu-west-3
1.0836 USD/h 3.872 USD/h
California (US) / us-west-1
1.0173 USD/h 3.904 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / eu-central-1
1.5063 USD/h 4 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / ap-northeast-2
1.22465 USD/h 4.064 USD/h
Singapore (SG) / ap-southeast-1
1.5426 USD/h 4.128 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / ap-southeast-2
1.449967 USD/h 4.16 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / ap-northeast-1
1.1292 USD/h 4.288 USD/h
Sao Paulo (BR) / sa-east-1
1.4041 USD/h 5.28 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
64
Hypervisor
nitro
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
32
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
1 MiB
CPU L1I Cache
64 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
2 MiB
CPU L2 Cache
512 KiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
16 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
8 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
64 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, amd_dcm, 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
32
Scalability
100

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
256 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
256 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
    2400 GB
    Storage Type
    nvme ssd
    Storages
    • 600 GB nvme ssd
    • 600 GB nvme ssd
    • 600 GB nvme ssd
    • 600 GB nvme ssd
    NETWORK
    Network Speed Baseline
    12 Gbps
    Network Speed Max
    12 Gbps
    Network Storage Speed Baseline
    9.5 Gbps
    Network Storage Speed Max
    9.5 Gbps
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    Server Description

    A balanced general-purpose platform combining dedicated AMD EPYC processors with high-capacity local NVMe SSD storage for multi-threaded workloads.

    General PurposeStorage & Database

    The Amazon Web Services m5ad.16xlarge is a general-purpose instance built on the Nitro hypervisor, featuring a 64-vCPU AMD EPYC 7571 processor and 256 GB of DDR4 memory. It includes 2400 GB of local NVMe SSD storage and a 12 Gbps baseline network speed. While single-core benchmarks place the instance in the bottom 10% due to its 2.5 GHz clock speed, its multi-core and cryptographic capabilities perform at average to strong levels, with Passmark encryption scoring in the top 25%. The balanced 1:4 vCPU-to-RAM ratio combined with high-capacity local NVMe storage makes this instance a cost-efficient choice for multi-threaded workloads, database operations, and web serving that require fast local scratch space, though it is less suited for single-threaded or intensive machine learning inference tasks.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    1.44Score
    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) 3,299,262 ops/sec 1,896,415 ops/sec 1.74 50.00% 50.00% +31.90%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 21,605,289 ops/sec 11,539,523 ops/sec 1.87 20.00% 20.00% +13.30%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,245 2,411 0.931 10.00% 10.00% -0.71%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 125,200 MB/sec 107,368 MB/sec 1.17 10.00% 10.00% +1.58%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,449 Mops/s 2,363 Mops/s 0.613 10.00% 10.00% -4.78%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 731

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 7,518

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 37068
    Compression
    		 706412
    Encryption
    		 51288
    Extended Instructions
    		 26060
    Floating Point Maths
    		 87351
    Integer Maths
    		 165888
    Physics
    		 3732
    Prime Numbers
    		 150
    Single Threaded
    		 1449
    String Sorting
    		 96129

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2245
    Database Operations
    		 15208
    Memory Latency
    		 60
    Memory Read Cached
    		 14920
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 11730
    Memory Write
    		 8251

    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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