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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 0.0633 USD per hour.
8 vCPU
32 GiB Memory
300 GB Storage
Spare SCore
6989
(All-cores)
1326
(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
2026-06-26T21:50:38.728000

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Oregon (US) / us-west-2
0.17725 USD/h 0.452 USD/h
Ohio (US) / us-east-2
0.178633 USD/h 0.452 USD/h
Northern Virgina (US) / us-east-1
0.30908 USD/h 0.452 USD/h
Stockholm (SE) / eu-north-1
0.129567 USD/h 0.48 USD/h
Hyderabad (IN) / ap-south-2
0.140233 USD/h 0.488 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / ap-south-1
0.229067 USD/h 0.488 USD/h
Calgary (CA) / ca-west-1
0.223867 USD/h 0.504 USD/h
Aragón (ES) / eu-south-2
0.235767 USD/h 0.504 USD/h
Quebec (CA) / ca-central-1
0.177067 USD/h 0.504 USD/h
Dublin (IE) / eu-west-1
0.286467 USD/h 0.504 USD/h
London (GB) / eu-west-2
0.232133 USD/h 0.524 USD/h
Milan (IT) / eu-south-1
0.1142 USD/h 0.528 USD/h
Paris (FR) / eu-west-3
0.218633 USD/h 0.528 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / il-central-1
0.203367 USD/h 0.529 USD/h
California (US) / us-west-1
0.21305 USD/h 0.532 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / eu-central-1
0.242133 USD/h 0.544 USD/h
United Arab Emirates / me-central-1
0.1627 USD/h 0.554 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / ap-northeast-2
0.219175 USD/h 0.556 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / ap-southeast-3
0.1007 USD/h 0.564 USD/h
Singapore (SG) / ap-southeast-1
0.2742 USD/h 0.564 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / ap-southeast-4
0.120433 USD/h 0.568 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / ap-southeast-2
0.341667 USD/h 0.568 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / ap-northeast-3
0.179167 USD/h 0.584 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / ap-northeast-1
0.2486 USD/h 0.584 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / eu-central-2
0.146567 USD/h 0.598 USD/h
Cape Town (ZA) / af-south-1
0.150933 USD/h 0.6 USD/h
Hong Kong (HK) / ap-east-1
0.137467 USD/h 0.62 USD/h
Sao Paulo (BR) / sa-east-1
0.1105 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
132.5

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 compute, DDR4 memory, and high-speed local NVMe SSD storage.

    General PurposeStorage & Database

    Amazon Web Services m5d.2xlarge is a general-purpose instance featuring an Intel Xeon 8259CL processor with 8 dedicated vCPUs, 4 physical cores, and a 3.1 GHz clock speed. It is equipped with 32.0 GB of DDR4 memory and a bundled 300 GB NVMe SSD local instance store volume, running on the AWS Nitro hypervisor. Performance benchmarks show average multi-core capabilities, memory bandwidth, and database operations, alongside weaker single-core and LLM inference metrics. With a baseline network bandwidth of 2 Gbps, this instance is qualitatively cost-efficient for workloads requiring a balance of compute, memory, and high-speed local storage. It is well-suited for database hosting, caching, software compilation, and general-purpose web serving.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    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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