m5d.2xlarge by Amazon Web Services

m5d.2xlarge is a General purpose [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 0.0488 USD per hour.
8 vCPU
32 GiB Memory
300 GB Storage
Spare SCore
6,989
(All-cores)
1,326
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
aws
Name
m5d.2xlarge
Description
General purpose [Instance store volumes] Gen5 2xlarge
Family
m5d
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-09T19:41:11.742565

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Ohio (US) / us-east-2
0.129067 USD/h 0.452 USD/h
Oregon (US) / us-west-2
0.20055 USD/h 0.452 USD/h
Northern Virgina (US) / us-east-1
0.3126 USD/h 0.452 USD/h
Stockholm (SE) / eu-north-1
0.1697 USD/h 0.48 USD/h
Hyderabad (IN) / ap-south-2
0.050733 USD/h 0.488 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / ap-south-1
0.227967 USD/h 0.488 USD/h
Aragón (ES) / eu-south-2
0.079033 USD/h 0.504 USD/h
Calgary (CA) / ca-west-1
0.215367 USD/h 0.504 USD/h
Quebec (CA) / ca-central-1
0.180667 USD/h 0.504 USD/h
Dublin (IE) / eu-west-1
0.276933 USD/h 0.504 USD/h
London (GB) / eu-west-2
0.233167 USD/h 0.524 USD/h
Milan (IT) / eu-south-1
0.159467 USD/h 0.528 USD/h
Paris (FR) / eu-west-3
0.241 USD/h 0.528 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / il-central-1
0.153133 USD/h 0.529 USD/h
California (US) / us-west-1
0.20885 USD/h 0.532 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / eu-central-1
0.2462 USD/h 0.544 USD/h
United Arab Emirates / me-central-1
0.2268 USD/h 0.554 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / ap-northeast-2
0.142375 USD/h 0.556 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / ap-southeast-3
0.0564 USD/h 0.564 USD/h
Singapore (SG) / ap-southeast-1
0.277833 USD/h 0.564 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / ap-southeast-4
0.1125 USD/h 0.568 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / ap-southeast-2
0.313033 USD/h 0.568 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / ap-northeast-3
0.1557 USD/h 0.584 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / ap-northeast-1
0.2592 USD/h 0.584 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / eu-central-2
0.160467 USD/h 0.598 USD/h
Cape Town (ZA) / af-south-1
0.212967 USD/h 0.6 USD/h
Hong Kong (HK) / ap-east-1
0.159233 USD/h 0.62 USD/h
Sao Paulo (BR) / sa-east-1
0.114467 USD/h 0.72 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
8
Hypervisor
nitro
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
4
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
128 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
128 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
4 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
36 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
36 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
5.3
Scalability
66.25

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
32 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
32 GiB
Memory Generation
DDR4
Memory Speed
2933 Mhz
GPU
GPU Count
0
GPU Memory Min
0 MiB
GPU Memory Total
0 MiB
GPUs
    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
    2.3 Gbps
    Network Storage Speed Max
    4.75 Gbps
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    Server Description

    A balanced general-purpose instance featuring dedicated Intel Xeon processing and integrated high-speed local NVMe SSD storage for versatile workloads.

    General PurposeStorage & Database

    Amazon Web Services m5d.2xlarge is a general-purpose instance utilizing the Nitro hypervisor and an Intel Xeon 8259CL x86_64 processor. It offers 8 vCPUs across 4 physical cores, 32.0 GB of DDR4 memory, and a bundled 300 GB NVMe SSD for local storage. Operating at 3.1 GHz, the CPU supports AVX and AVX-512f instructions. Benchmark results show average multi-core CPU performance and memory bandwidth, alongside average throughput for static web serving and Redis SET operations. However, single-core performance and database operations are relatively weak, and LLM inference speeds for medium models are poor. This instance is qualitatively cost-efficient for balanced workloads requiring local scratch space, making it suitable for general-purpose applications, web serving, and moderate caching environments.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.43Score
    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) 704,353 ops/sec 2,029,678 ops/sec 0.35 50.00% 50.00% -41.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 4,296,296 ops/sec 12,408,146 ops/sec 0.36 20.00% 20.00% -18.00%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,151 2,417 0.92 10.00% 10.00% -0.83%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 52,598 MB/sec 108,374 MB/sec 0.48 10.00% 10.00% -7.10%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,793 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.75 10.00% 10.00% -2.80%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,013

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 3,884

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 7396
    Compression
    		 99685
    Encryption
    		 3089
    Extended Instructions
    		 5942
    Floating Point Maths
    		 11965
    Integer Maths
    		 22229
    Physics
    		 722
    Prime Numbers
    		 30
    Single Threaded
    		 1793
    String Sorting
    		 11890

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2151
    Database Operations
    		 2593
    Memory Latency
    		 59
    Memory Read Cached
    		 21525
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 9321
    Memory Write
    		 9455

    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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