m5d.metal by Amazon Web Services

m5d.metal is a General purpose [Instance store volumes] Gen5 metal server offered by Amazon Web Services with 96 vCPUs, 384 GiB of memory and 3.6 TB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.635 USD per hour.
96 vCPU
384 GiB Memory
3.6 TB Storage
Spare SCore
82,017
(All-cores)
1,459
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
aws
Name
m5d.metal
Description
General purpose [Instance store volumes] Gen5 metal
Family
m5d
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-09-16T05:55:52.435661

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Ohio (US) / us-east-2
0.919533 USD/h 5.424 USD/h
Northern Virgina (US) / us-east-1
1.53512 USD/h 5.424 USD/h
Oregon (US) / us-west-2
2.2099 USD/h 5.424 USD/h
Stockholm (SE) / eu-north-1
0.813467 USD/h 5.76 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / ap-south-1
0.901667 USD/h 5.856 USD/h
Hyderabad (IN) / ap-south-2
1.090867 USD/h 5.856 USD/h
Aragón (ES) / eu-south-2
1.030033 USD/h 6.048 USD/h
Quebec (CA) / ca-central-1
1.387267 USD/h 6.048 USD/h
Dublin (IE) / eu-west-1
1.603033 USD/h 6.048 USD/h
Calgary (CA) / ca-west-1
4.870567 USD/h 6.048 USD/h
London (GB) / eu-west-2
1.775867 USD/h 6.288 USD/h
Paris (FR) / eu-west-3
1.657867 USD/h 6.336 USD/h
Milan (IT) / eu-south-1
1.9821 USD/h 6.336 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / il-central-1
0.6825 USD/h 6.35 USD/h
California (US) / us-west-1
1.49585 USD/h 6.384 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / eu-central-1
1.658567 USD/h 6.528 USD/h
United Arab Emirates / me-central-1
2.7236 USD/h 6.653 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / ap-northeast-2
1.117825 USD/h 6.672 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / ap-southeast-3
0.931967 USD/h 6.768 USD/h
Singapore (SG) / ap-southeast-1
1.8701 USD/h 6.768 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / ap-southeast-4
1.027133 USD/h 6.816 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / ap-southeast-2
2.423567 USD/h 6.816 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / ap-northeast-1
1.3528 USD/h 7.008 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / ap-northeast-3
2.578133 USD/h 7.008 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / eu-central-2
1.222033 USD/h 7.181 USD/h
Cape Town (ZA) / af-south-1
1.121067 USD/h 7.2 USD/h
Hong Kong (HK) / ap-east-1
1.031467 USD/h 7.44 USD/h
Sao Paulo (BR) / sa-east-1
0.864 USD/h 8.64 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
96
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
48
CPU Speed
3.1 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU Model
8175M
CPU L1D Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
2 MiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
2 MiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
48 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
33 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
66 MiB
CPU Flags
fpu, vme, de, pse, tsc, msr, pae, mce, cx8, apic, sep, mtrr, pge, mca, cmov, pat, pse36, clflush, dts, acpi, mmx, fxsr, sse, sse2, ss, ht, tm, pbe, syscall, nx, pdpe1gb, rdtscp, lm, constant_tsc, art, arch_perfmon, pebs, bts, rep_good, nopl, xtopology, nonstop_tsc, cpuid, aperfmperf, pni, pclmulqdq, dtes64, monitor, ds_cpl, vmx, smx, est, tm2, ssse3, sdbg, fma, cx16, xtpr, pdcm, pcid, dca, sse4_1, sse4_2, x2apic, movbe, popcnt, tsc_deadline_timer, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, lahf_lm, abm, 3dnowprefetch, cpuid_fault, epb, cat_l3, cdp_l3, pti, intel_ppin, ssbd, mba, ibrs, ibpb, stibp, tpr_shadow, flexpriority, ept, vpid, ept_ad, fsgsbase, tsc_adjust, bmi1, hle, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, rtm, cqm, mpx, rdt_a, avx512f, avx512dq, rdseed, adx, smap, clflushopt, clwb, intel_pt, avx512cd, avx512bw, avx512vl, xsaveopt, xsavec, xgetbv1, xsaves, cqm_llc, cqm_occup_llc, cqm_mbm_total, cqm_mbm_local, dtherm, ida, arat, pln, pts, hwp, hwp_act_window, hwp_epp, hwp_pkg_req, vnmi, pku, ospke, md_clear, flush_l1d, arch_capabilities
Ecpus
56.2
Scalability
117.08

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
384 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
384 GiB
Memory Generation
DDR4
Memory Speed
2666 Mhz
GPU
GPU Count
0
GPU Memory Min
0 MiB
GPU Memory Total
0 MiB
GPUs
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    3600 GB
    Storage Type
    nvme ssd
    Storages
    • 900 GB nvme ssd
    • 900 GB nvme ssd
    • 900 GB nvme ssd
    • 900 GB nvme ssd
    NETWORK
    Network Speed Baseline
    25 Gbps
    Network Speed Max
    25 Gbps
    Network Storage Speed Baseline
    19 Gbps
    Network Storage Speed Max
    19 Gbps
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    Server Description

    A bare-metal server combining high-density multi-core computing with fast local NVMe storage for demanding enterprise workloads.

    General PurposeStorage & Database

    Amazon Web Services m5d.metal is a bare-metal, general-purpose server featuring 96 vCPUs, 48 physical Intel Xeon 8175M cores, and 384.0 GB of DDR4 memory. It includes 3600 GB of local NVMe SSD instance storage and a 25 Gbps baseline network speed. The server delivers strong multi-core CPU performance and high memory bandwidth, as shown by its stress-ng multi-core score of 82016.64 and 216.75 GB/sec large-block read speed. It also demonstrates strong database capabilities, achieving 76.56 million operations per second in Redis SET benchmarks. However, single-core performance and LLM text generation speeds are average to poor. This bare-metal configuration is highly suitable for large-scale databases, multi-threaded enterprise applications, software compilation, and high-throughput web serving.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    3.2Score
    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) 9,516,514 ops/sec 1,917,397 ops/sec 4.96 50.00% 50.00% +123.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 49,443,528 ops/sec 11,681,410 ops/sec 4.23 20.00% 20.00% +33.40%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,817 2,418 1.17 10.00% 10.00% +1.58%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 224,596 MB/sec 108,140 MB/sec 2.08 10.00% 10.00% +7.60%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 2,060 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.871 10.00% 10.00% -1.37%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,209

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 11,919

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 56894
    Compression
    		 1190749
    Encryption
    		 37532
    Extended Instructions
    		 74841
    Floating Point Maths
    		 147031
    Integer Maths
    		 274418
    Physics
    		 4869
    Prime Numbers
    		 330
    Single Threaded
    		 2060
    String Sorting
    		 135546

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2817
    Database Operations
    		 21725
    Memory Latency
    		 50
    Memory Read Cached
    		 25188
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 10829
    Memory Write
    		 10408

    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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