m5dn.metal by Amazon Web Services

m5dn.metal is a General purpose [Instance store volumes] [Network and EBS optimized] 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 0.6963 USD per hour.
96 vCPU
384 GiB Memory
3.6 TB Storage
Spare SCore
81,986
(All-cores)
1,459
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
aws
Name
m5dn.metal
Description
General purpose [Instance store volumes] [Network and EBS optimized] Gen5 metal
Family
m5dn
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-09-20T22:40:27.522422

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Ohio (US) / us-east-2
0.8757 USD/h 6.528 USD/h
Northern Virgina (US) / us-east-1
1.95972 USD/h 6.528 USD/h
Oregon (US) / us-west-2
2.2862 USD/h 6.528 USD/h
Dublin (IE) / eu-west-1
2.001 USD/h 7.296 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / eu-central-1
2.202067 USD/h 7.776 USD/h
Singapore (SG) / ap-southeast-1
2.1979 USD/h 8.016 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / ap-northeast-1
1.725467 USD/h 8.4 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
8259CL
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
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, 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, intel_ppin, ssbd, mba, ibrs, ibpb, stibp, ibrs_enhanced, tpr_shadow, flexpriority, ept, vpid, ept_ad, fsgsbase, tsc_adjust, bmi1, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, 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, avx512_vnni, 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
2933 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
    100 Gbps
    Network Speed Max
    100 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-speed local NVMe storage, 100 Gbps networking, and strong multi-core processing for demanding database workloads.

    General PurposeStorage & Database

    Amazon Web Services m5dn.metal is a bare-metal general-purpose server featuring 96 dedicated vCPUs (48 physical cores) powered by an Intel Xeon 8259CL processor at 3.1 GHz. It includes 384.0 GB of DDR4 memory, 3600 GB of local NVMe SSD storage, and a 100 Gbps baseline network bandwidth. Benchmarks show strong multi-core CPU performance, with a PassMark CPU score of 56892.01, and high-speed memory bandwidth. Database operations are highly efficient, as evidenced by a Redis SET performance of 77.66 million operations per second. However, the server exhibits poor performance in LLM text generation due to the absence of GPU acceleration. This instance is suited for high-throughput database hosting, static web serving, software compilation, and multi-threaded general-purpose workloads requiring direct hardware access.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    3.24Score
    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) 9,630,261 ops/sec 1,919,696 ops/sec 5.02 50.00% 50.00% +124.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 50,410,434 ops/sec 11,736,081 ops/sec 4.3 20.00% 20.00% +33.90%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,852 2,418 1.18 10.00% 10.00% +1.67%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 228,705 MB/sec 108,260 MB/sec 2.11 10.00% 10.00% +7.75%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 2,047 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.865 10.00% 10.00% -1.44%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,332

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 12,746

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 56892
    Compression
    		 1188369
    Encryption
    		 37602
    Extended Instructions
    		 74721
    Floating Point Maths
    		 147178
    Integer Maths
    		 274185
    Physics
    		 5021
    Prime Numbers
    		 339
    Single Threaded
    		 2047
    String Sorting
    		 135786

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2852
    Database Operations
    		 21841
    Memory Latency
    		 50
    Memory Read Cached
    		 25080
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 11228
    Memory Write
    		 10685

    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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