m5ad.2xlarge by Amazon Web Services

m5ad.2xlarge is a General purpose [AMD processors] [Instance store volumes] Gen5 2xlarge server offered by Amazon Web Services with 8 vCPUs, 32 GiB of memory and 300 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.13 USD per hour.
8 vCPU
32 GiB Memory
300 GB Storage
Spare SCore
2,361
(All-cores)
591
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
aws
Name
m5ad.2xlarge
Description
General purpose [AMD processors] [Instance store volumes] Gen5 2xlarge
Family
m5ad
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-30T16:04:07.996570

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Mumbai (IN) / ap-south-1
0.1673 USD/h 0.268 USD/h
Ohio (US) / us-east-2
0.150133 USD/h 0.412 USD/h
Oregon (US) / us-west-2
0.22075 USD/h 0.412 USD/h
Northern Virgina (US) / us-east-1
0.3119 USD/h 0.412 USD/h
Quebec (CA) / ca-central-1
0.22115 USD/h 0.46 USD/h
Dublin (IE) / eu-west-1
0.251067 USD/h 0.46 USD/h
London (GB) / eu-west-2
0.236467 USD/h 0.48 USD/h
Paris (FR) / eu-west-3
0.2366 USD/h 0.484 USD/h
California (US) / us-west-1
0.2018 USD/h 0.488 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / eu-central-1
0.2559 USD/h 0.5 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / ap-northeast-2
0.18255 USD/h 0.508 USD/h
Singapore (SG) / ap-southeast-1
0.2751 USD/h 0.516 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / ap-southeast-2
0.254233 USD/h 0.52 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / ap-northeast-1
0.213267 USD/h 0.536 USD/h
Sao Paulo (BR) / sa-east-1
0.1383 USD/h 0.66 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
8
Hypervisor
nitro
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
4
CPU Speed
2.2 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
50

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
32 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
32 GiB
Memory Generation
DDR4
Memory Speed
2667 Mhz
ACCELERATORS
Accelerator Count
0
Accelerator Memory Min
0 MiB
Accelerator Memory Total
0 MiB
Accelerators
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    300 GB
    Storage Type
    nvme ssd
    Storages
    • 300 GB nvme ssd
    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 virtual machine featuring dedicated AMD EPYC processing and integrated high-speed local NVMe SSD storage.

    General PurposeStorage & Database

    The Amazon Web Services m5ad.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. Built on the AWS Nitro hypervisor, this x86_64 server includes a bundled 300 GB local NVMe SSD instance store volume and a baseline network bandwidth of 2 Gbps. Benchmark data indicates modest compute performance, with stress-ng and Geekbench scores placing it in the lower percentiles, though Passmark CPU encryption and memory tests reach average tiers. Given its balanced 1:4 vCPU-to-RAM ratio and low-latency local storage, the m5ad.2xlarge is qualitatively cost-effective for workloads requiring temporary scratch space. It is best suited for general-purpose applications, development environments, light database operations, and basic web serving.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.29Score
    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) 432,840 ops/sec 1,919,289 ops/sec 0.23 50.00% 50.00% -52.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 2,838,907 ops/sec 11,728,058 ops/sec 0.23 20.00% 20.00% -25.00%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,929 2,416 0.79 10.00% 10.00% -2.30%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 28,252 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 0.25 10.00% 10.00% -13.00%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,446 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.58 10.00% 10.00% -5.30%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 728

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 2,952

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 6,909
    Compression
    		 87,895
    Encryption
    		 6,496
    Extended Instructions
    		 3,245
    Floating Point Maths
    		 10,924
    Integer Maths
    		 20,740
    Physics
    		 614
    Prime Numbers
    		 22
    Single Threaded
    		 1,446
    String Sorting
    		 12,850

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 1,929
    Database Operations
    		 1,977
    Memory Latency
    		 60
    Memory Read Cached
    		 14,940
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 11,682
    Memory Write
    		 8,053

    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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