m5d.16xlarge by Amazon Web Services

m5d.16xlarge is a General purpose [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 0.3904 USD per hour.
64 vCPU
256 GiB Memory
2.4 TB Storage
Spare SCore
54,133
(All-cores)
1,285
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
aws
Name
m5d.16xlarge
Description
General purpose [Instance store volumes] Gen5 16xlarge
Family
General Purpose
Series
m5d
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-11-11T22:18:05.924847

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Northern Virgina (US) / us-east-1
1.24066 USD/h 3.616 USD/h
Ohio (US) / us-east-2
0.999267 USD/h 3.616 USD/h
Oregon (US) / us-west-2
1.7276 USD/h 3.616 USD/h
Stockholm (SE) / eu-north-1
0.5948 USD/h 3.84 USD/h
Hyderabad (IN) / ap-south-2
0.3904 USD/h 3.904 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / ap-south-1
1.247167 USD/h 3.904 USD/h
Calgary (CA) / ca-west-1
2.761033 USD/h 4.032 USD/h
Aragón (ES) / eu-south-2
1.151767 USD/h 4.032 USD/h
Quebec (CA) / ca-central-1
1.000833 USD/h 4.032 USD/h
Dublin (IE) / eu-west-1
1.992067 USD/h 4.032 USD/h
London (GB) / eu-west-2
1.215567 USD/h 4.192 USD/h
Milan (IT) / eu-south-1
0.869733 USD/h 4.224 USD/h
Paris (FR) / eu-west-3
1.069833 USD/h 4.224 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / il-central-1
1.014767 USD/h 4.234 USD/h
California (US) / us-west-1
1.14295 USD/h 4.256 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / eu-central-1
1.608 USD/h 4.352 USD/h
United Arab Emirates / me-central-1
1.19695 USD/h 4.435 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / ap-northeast-2
1.06765 USD/h 4.448 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / ap-southeast-3
0.4512 USD/h 4.512 USD/h
Singapore (SG) / ap-southeast-1
1.344133 USD/h 4.512 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / ap-southeast-4
0.4544 USD/h 4.544 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / ap-southeast-2
1.617 USD/h 4.544 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / ap-northeast-1
1.370167 USD/h 4.672 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / ap-northeast-3
1.231733 USD/h 4.672 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / eu-central-2
0.784367 USD/h 4.787 USD/h
Cape Town (ZA) / af-south-1
1.013333 USD/h 4.8 USD/h
Hong Kong (HK) / ap-east-1
0.595933 USD/h 4.96 USD/h
Sao Paulo (BR) / sa-east-1
2.8788 USD/h 5.76 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
64
Hypervisor
nitro
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
32
CPU Speed
3.1 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU Model
8259CL
CPU L1D Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
1 MiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
32 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
36 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
72 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, ss, ht, syscall, nx, pdpe1gb, rdtscp, lm, constant_tsc, rep_good, nopl, xtopology, nonstop_tsc, cpuid, aperfmperf, tsc_known_freq, pni, pclmulqdq, ssse3, fma, cx16, pcid, sse4_1, sse4_2, x2apic, movbe, popcnt, tsc_deadline_timer, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, abm, 3dnowprefetch, pti, fsgsbase, tsc_adjust, bmi1, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, mpx, avx512f, avx512dq, rdseed, adx, smap, clflushopt, clwb, avx512cd, avx512bw, avx512vl, xsaveopt, xsavec, xgetbv1, xsaves, ida, arat, pku, ospke
Ecpus
42.1
Scalability
65.78

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
256 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
256 GiB
Memory Generation
DDR4
Memory Speed
2933 Mhz
ACCELERATORS
Accelerator Count
0
Accelerator Memory Min
0 MiB
Accelerator Memory Total
0 MiB
Accelerators
    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
    Compatible Storage IDs
    standard, gp2, gp3, st1, sc1, io1, io2
    NETWORK
    Network Speed Baseline
    20 Gbps
    Network Speed Max
    20 Gbps
    Network Storage Speed Baseline
    13.6 Gbps
    Network Storage Speed Max
    13.6 Gbps
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    Server Description

    A general-purpose instance featuring sixty-four virtual cores, balanced memory, and high-capacity local NVMe SSD storage for data-intensive workloads.

    Amazon Web Services m5d.16xlarge is a general-purpose instance featuring 64 vCPUs and 32 physical Intel Xeon 8259CL cores running at 3.1 GHz, paired with 256.0 GB of DDR4 memory. Built on the Nitro hypervisor, it includes 2400 GB of local NVMe SSD storage and a 20 Gbps baseline network bandwidth. Benchmarks show average multi-core CPU and database performance, alongside strong large-block read-only memory bandwidth. However, single-core processing and LLM text generation performance are weak. The instance provides a balanced resource profile, making it qualitatively cost-efficient for workloads that benefit from high-capacity local NVMe storage, such as database operations, multi-threaded applications, and static web serving, while being less optimal for single-threaded tasks.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    2.1Score
    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) 5,365,188 ops/sec 1,926,573 ops/sec 2.8 50.00% 50.00% +67.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 31,423,220 ops/sec 11,810,473 ops/sec 2.6 20.00% 20.00% +21.00%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,663 2,407 1.1 10.00% 10.00% +0.96%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 208,251 MB/sec 108,674 MB/sec 1.9 10.00% 10.00% +6.60%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,878 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.79 10.00% 10.00% -2.30%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,055

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 11,234

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 44,078
    Compression
    		 811,560
    Encryption
    		 25,714
    Extended Instructions
    		 52,992
    Floating Point Maths
    		 100,411
    Integer Maths
    		 187,713
    Physics
    		 4,704
    Prime Numbers
    		 264
    Single Threaded
    		 1,878
    String Sorting
    		 95,299

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2,663
    Database Operations
    		 21,665
    Memory Latency
    		 53
    Memory Read Cached
    		 22,595
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 10,819
    Memory Write
    		 10,258

    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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