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r5b.large by Amazon Web Services

r5b.large is a Memory optimized Gen5 large server offered by Amazon Web Services with 2 vCPUs, 16 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0281 USD per hour.
2 vCPU
16 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
1675
(All-cores)
1274
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
aws
Name
r5b.large
Description
Memory optimized Gen5 large
Family
r5b
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-07-21T22:13:14.052604

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Ohio (US) / us-east-2
0.0355 USD/h 0.149 USD/h
Oregon (US) / us-west-2
0.047367 USD/h 0.149 USD/h
Northern Virgina (US) / us-east-1
0.0513 USD/h 0.149 USD/h
Stockholm (SE) / eu-north-1
0.03805 USD/h 0.1579 USD/h
Quebec (CA) / ca-central-1
0.092167 USD/h 0.163 USD/h
Dublin (IE) / eu-west-1
0.068633 USD/h 0.167 USD/h
Milan (IT) / eu-south-1
0.0372 USD/h 0.175 USD/h
London (GB) / eu-west-2
0.063267 USD/h 0.175 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / ap-northeast-2
0.050967 USD/h 0.178 USD/h
Singapore (SG) / ap-southeast-1
0.0644 USD/h 0.178 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / eu-central-1
0.069567 USD/h 0.178 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / ap-northeast-1
0.052167 USD/h 0.181 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / ap-southeast-2
0.0624 USD/h 0.181 USD/h
Sao Paulo (BR) / sa-east-1
0.052 USD/h 0.237 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
2
Hypervisor
nitro
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
1
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
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
32 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
1 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, avx512_vnni
Ecpus
1.3
Scalability
130

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
16 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
16 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
    0 GB
    Storages
      NETWORK
      Network Speed Baseline
      0.75 Gbps
      Network Speed Max
      10 Gbps
      Network Storage Speed Baseline
      1.25 Gbps
      Network Storage Speed Max
      10 Gbps
      Inbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      Outbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      IPv4
      0

      Server Description

      A memory-optimized virtual server featuring a high RAM-to-vCPU ratio for memory-bound workloads requiring moderate compute resources.

      Memory OptimizedGeneral Purpose

      Amazon Web Services r5b.large is a memory-optimized instance featuring 2 vCPUs and 16.0 GB of DDR4 RAM, running on a dedicated Intel Xeon 8259CL processor at 3.1 GHz. Built on the AWS Nitro hypervisor, this x86_64 server provides a high memory-to-vCPU ratio of 8.0 GB per core, though it lacks local storage and GPU accelerators. Benchmark results show average single-core performance with a Geekbench score of 1138.0, but multi-core and memory bandwidth metrics remain in lower percentiles, with Redis SET operations reaching 1.67 million operations per second. The server offers a baseline network bandwidth of 1 Gbps. It is qualitatively cost-efficient for memory-heavy, low-compute applications, making it suitable for small databases, caching layers, and memory-bound utility workloads.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

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      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.147Score
      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) 168,077 ops/sec 1,896,415 ops/sec 0.0886 50.00% 50.00% -70.20%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 1,066,732 ops/sec 11,539,523 ops/sec 0.0924 20.00% 20.00% -37.90%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,592 2,411 0.661 10.00% 10.00% -4.06%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 22,071 MB/sec 107,368 MB/sec 0.206 10.00% 10.00% -14.60%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 1,748 Mops/s 2,363 Mops/s 0.74 10.00% 10.00% -2.97%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 1,138

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 1,356

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		2005
      Compression
      		25243
      Encryption
      		770
      Extended Instructions
      		1447
      Floating Point Maths
      		3014
      Integer Maths
      		5607
      Physics
      		267
      Prime Numbers
      		12
      Single Threaded
      		1748
      String Sorting
      		2966

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		1592
      Database Operations
      		663
      Memory Latency
      		60
      Memory Read Cached
      		21463
      Memory Read Uncached
      		11292
      Memory Write
      		8950

      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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