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m5a EC2 instance family

AMD EPYC 7571 at 2.5 GHz, x86_64, 2 to 96 vCPUs, 8 to 384 GiB

Prices Description Specs Performance ranking Available Regions Prices by region
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m5a prices per hour on Linux/UNIX, each type in its cheapest region
Type vCPU Memory Typical spot On-demand Cheapest region Per vCPU-hour
m5a.large2 vCPU, 8 GiB 2 8 GiB $0.0244 $0.0560 ap-south-1 of 16 $0.0122
m5a.xlarge4 vCPU, 16 GiB 4 16 GiB $0.0567 $0.2120 ap-northeast-2 of 16 $0.0142
m5a.2xlarge8 vCPU, 32 GiB 8 32 GiB $0.0871 $0.4240 ap-northeast-2 of 16 $0.0109
m5a.4xlarge16 vCPU, 64 GiB 16 64 GiB $0.1961 $1.104 sa-east-1 of 16 $0.0123
m5a.8xlarge32 vCPU, 128 GiB 32 128 GiB $0.3028 $1.616 eu-south-1 of 16 $0.00946
m5a.12xlarge48 vCPU, 192 GiB 48 192 GiB $0.2424 $2.424 eu-south-1 of 16 $0.00505
m5a.16xlarge64 vCPU, 256 GiB 64 256 GiB $0.3232 $3.232 eu-south-1 of 16 $0.00505
m5a.24xlarge96 vCPU, 384 GiB 96 384 GiB $0.4848 $4.848 eu-south-1 of 16 $0.00505

Per hour on Linux/UNIX, in each type's cheapest region. Typical spot: per pricing run of the last 7 days, the cheapest zone's spot price, averaged, as the finder shows it with that region selected. On-demand: the same region's price. Per vCPU-hour: the spot price, or without spot the on-demand price, per vCPU. Every region is under Prices by region.

The M5A general purpose instance family, launched in November 2018, is powered by AMD EPYC 7571 processors with an all-core turbo of 2.5 GHz. These instances are EBS-optimized, do not include local instance storage, and provide up to 20 Gbps of network bandwidth using Enhanced Networking. Built on the AWS Nitro System, a key feature is the approximately 10% cost savings they offer compared to comparable Intel-based M5 instances.

Written by Gemini from web sources and not checked: the specs and prices on this page come from AWS.

Instance Types
m5a.large m5a.xlarge m5a.2xlarge m5a.4xlarge m5a.8xlarge m5a.12xlarge m5a.16xlarge m5a.24xlarge
vCPUs
2 to 96
Memory
8 to 384 GiB
Architecture
x86_64
Processor
AMD EPYC 7571
Sustained clock
2.5 GHz
Single-thread PassMark
1414 measured on m5a, 2026-09-30: the median of its types in runs-on.com benchmarks
Specs of each type
Type vCPU Memory Local storage Network EBS
m5a.large 2 8 GiB EBS only up to 10 (0.75 baseline) up to 2.88 (0.65 baseline)
m5a.xlarge 4 16 GiB EBS only up to 10 (1.25 baseline) up to 2.88 (1.085 baseline)
m5a.2xlarge 8 32 GiB EBS only up to 10 (2.5 baseline) up to 2.88 (1.58 baseline)
m5a.4xlarge 16 64 GiB EBS only up to 10 (5 baseline) 2.88
m5a.8xlarge 32 128 GiB EBS only up to 10 (7.5 baseline) 4.75
m5a.12xlarge 48 192 GiB EBS only 10 6.78
m5a.16xlarge 64 256 GiB EBS only 12 9.5
m5a.24xlarge 96 384 GiB EBS only 20 13.75

Network and EBS: peak bandwidth in Gbit/s, with the bandwidth the type sustains when it is lower. Local storage: the instance store, in decimal GB as AWS sizes it.

Ranked by PassMark single-thread score
All x86_64 arm64
#1
m8azn, x8aedz
4257
#3
m8a, c8a, hpc8a, r8a
3803 3801–3803
#7
m8i, m8ib, m8id, m8in, m8idb, m8idn, m8ine, m8i-flex, c8i, c8i-flex, c8ib, c8id, c8in, c8ine, r8i, r8i-flex, r8ib, r8id, r8idb, r8idn, r8in, t8i, x8i
3271 3243–3271
#30
i7i, r7iz
3115 3105–3115
#32
m7a, c7a, c7i, hpc7a, r7a
2955 2875–2955
#37
m7i, r7i
2816 2763–2816
#39
c7i-flex
2700
#40
m6a, m5zn, m7i-flex, c6a, hpc6a, i7ie, r6a, x2iezn
2596 2549–2596
#48
m6i, m6id, m6in, m6idn, c6i, c6id, c6in, hpc6id, i4i, r6i, r6id, r6idn, r6in, x2idn, x2iedn, z1d
2303 2269–2303
#64
c5a, c5ad, c5d
2034 1995–2034
#67
m5d, c5, c5n
1901 1853–1901
#70
m5dn, c4, r5dn, r5n, t2, t3
1777 1746–1777
#76
m5, m5n, i3en, r5, r5b, r5d
1703 1686–1703
#82
m4, c3, i3
1625 1582–1625
#85
r3, r4
1539 1525–1539
#87
m5a, m5ad, r5a, r5ad, t3a
1414 1388–1414

Not benchmarked yet 44

These families have no PassMark single-thread score yet, so they are not ranked.

c1, d2, d3, d3en, dl2q, f2, g4dn, g5, g6, g6e, g6f, g7, g7e, gr6, gr6f, h1, i2, inf1, inf2, m1, m2, m3, mac1, p3dn, p4d, p4de, p5, p5en, p6-b200, p6-b300, t1, trn1, trn1n, u-3tb1, u-6tb1, u7i-12tb, u7i-6tb, u7i-8tb, u7in-16tb, u7in-24tb, u7in-32tb, vt1, x1, x1e

16 regions with a price in the last 7 days. Select up to 4 to compare them in the price history charts under Prices by region.

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Each type's regions on Linux/UNIX, cheapest first, with the same figures as the Prices table, and its price history: the daily mean of every zone and pricing run, over the last 15 UTC days. Each price column is tinted from its cheapest region (green) to its most expensive (red).

m5a.large2 vCPU, 8 GiB, 16 regions
m5a.large prices per hour on Linux/UNIX, by region, cheapest first
Region Typical spot On-demand Spot saving
ap-south-1 Mumbai $0.0244 $0.0560 56%
us-east-2 Ohio $0.0310 $0.0860 64%
us-west-2 Oregon $0.0311 $0.0860 64%
ap-northeast-2 Seoul $0.0318 $0.1060 70%
eu-south-1 Milan $0.0336 $0.1010 67%
sa-east-1 São Paulo $0.0352 $0.1380 75%
us-east-1 N. Virginia $0.0356 $0.0860 59%
ca-central-1 Canada Central $0.0382 $0.0960 60%
eu-west-2 London $0.0416 $0.1000 58%
us-west-1 N. California $0.0428 $0.1010 58%
eu-west-3 Paris $0.0455 $0.1010 55%
ap-southeast-2 Sydney $0.0484 $0.1080 55%
ap-northeast-1 Tokyo $0.0486 $0.1120 57%
eu-central-1 Frankfurt $0.0490 $0.1040 53%
ap-southeast-1 Singapore $0.0511 $0.1080 53%
eu-west-1 Ireland $0.0543 $0.0960 43%
Solid: spot, the daily mean of all zones (the typical spot above takes the cheapest zone). Dashed: on-demand. UTC days.
m5a.xlarge4 vCPU, 16 GiB, 16 regions
m5a.xlarge prices per hour on Linux/UNIX, by region, cheapest first
Region Typical spot On-demand Spot saving
ap-northeast-2 Seoul $0.0567 $0.2120 73%
ap-south-1 Mumbai $0.0575 $0.1110 48%
us-east-2 Ohio $0.0582 $0.1720 66%
eu-south-1 Milan $0.0719 $0.2020 64%
us-east-1 N. Virginia $0.0763 $0.1720 56%
sa-east-1 São Paulo $0.0799 $0.2760 71%
ca-central-1 Canada Central $0.0839 $0.1920 56%
eu-west-2 London $0.0864 $0.2000 57%
us-west-2 Oregon $0.0888 $0.1720 48%
eu-west-3 Paris $0.0979 $0.2020 52%
ap-northeast-1 Tokyo $0.0979 $0.2240 56%
us-west-1 N. California $0.1030 $0.2020 49%
eu-central-1 Frankfurt $0.1116 $0.2080 46%
ap-southeast-2 Sydney $0.1122 $0.2160 48%
ap-southeast-1 Singapore $0.1130 $0.2160 48%
eu-west-1 Ireland $0.1146 $0.1920 40%
Solid: spot, the daily mean of all zones (the typical spot above takes the cheapest zone). Dashed: on-demand. UTC days.
m5a.2xlarge8 vCPU, 32 GiB, 16 regions
m5a.2xlarge prices per hour on Linux/UNIX, by region, cheapest first
Region Typical spot On-demand Spot saving
ap-northeast-2 Seoul $0.0871 $0.4240 79%
ap-south-1 Mumbai $0.1114 $0.2220 50%
us-east-1 N. Virginia $0.1169 $0.3440 66%
us-east-2 Ohio $0.1206 $0.3440 65%
sa-east-1 São Paulo $0.1355 $0.5520 75%
us-west-2 Oregon $0.1543 $0.3440 55%
eu-south-1 Milan $0.1669 $0.4040 59%
ca-central-1 Canada Central $0.1752 $0.3840 54%
eu-west-3 Paris $0.1787 $0.4040 56%
us-west-1 N. California $0.1874 $0.4040 54%
eu-west-2 London $0.1963 $0.4000 51%
eu-central-1 Frankfurt $0.2008 $0.4160 52%
ap-northeast-1 Tokyo $0.2124 $0.4480 53%
ap-southeast-1 Singapore $0.2136 $0.4320 51%
eu-west-1 Ireland $0.2275 $0.3840 41%
ap-southeast-2 Sydney $0.2300 $0.4320 47%
Solid: spot, the daily mean of all zones (the typical spot above takes the cheapest zone). Dashed: on-demand. UTC days.
m5a.4xlarge16 vCPU, 64 GiB, 16 regions
m5a.4xlarge prices per hour on Linux/UNIX, by region, cheapest first
Region Typical spot On-demand Spot saving
sa-east-1 São Paulo $0.1961 $1.104 82%
ap-south-1 Mumbai $0.2069 $0.4440 53%
us-east-2 Ohio $0.2287 $0.6880 67%
eu-south-1 Milan $0.2324 $0.8080 71%
ap-northeast-2 Seoul $0.2536 $0.8480 70%
us-east-1 N. Virginia $0.2734 $0.6880 60%
us-west-1 N. California $0.2887 $0.8080 64%
ca-central-1 Canada Central $0.3072 $0.7680 60%
us-west-2 Oregon $0.3214 $0.6880 53%
eu-west-3 Paris $0.3467 $0.8080 57%
eu-west-2 London $0.3467 $0.8000 57%
ap-northeast-1 Tokyo $0.3838 $0.8960 57%
ap-southeast-2 Sydney $0.3924 $0.8640 55%
eu-central-1 Frankfurt $0.4214 $0.8320 49%
eu-west-1 Ireland $0.4367 $0.7680 43%
ap-southeast-1 Singapore $0.4849 $0.8640 44%
Solid: spot, the daily mean of all zones (the typical spot above takes the cheapest zone). Dashed: on-demand. UTC days.
m5a.8xlarge32 vCPU, 128 GiB, 16 regions
m5a.8xlarge prices per hour on Linux/UNIX, by region, cheapest first
Region Typical spot On-demand Spot saving
eu-south-1 Milan $0.3028 $1.616 81%
ap-northeast-2 Seoul $0.3263 $1.696 81%
sa-east-1 São Paulo $0.3957 $2.208 82%
us-east-2 Ohio $0.4050 $1.376 71%
ca-central-1 Canada Central $0.4087 $1.536 73%
ap-south-1 Mumbai $0.4245 $0.8890 52%
us-east-1 N. Virginia $0.5473 $1.376 60%
us-west-2 Oregon $0.5922 $1.376 57%
eu-west-2 London $0.6405 $1.600 60%
eu-west-3 Paris $0.6473 $1.616 60%
us-west-1 N. California $0.6971 $1.616 57%
eu-central-1 Frankfurt $0.7567 $1.664 55%
eu-west-1 Ireland $0.7676 $1.536 50%
ap-southeast-1 Singapore $0.8003 $1.728 54%
ap-northeast-1 Tokyo $0.8038 $1.792 55%
ap-southeast-2 Sydney $0.8401 $1.728 51%
Solid: spot, the daily mean of all zones (the typical spot above takes the cheapest zone). Dashed: on-demand. UTC days.
m5a.12xlarge48 vCPU, 192 GiB, 16 regions
m5a.12xlarge prices per hour on Linux/UNIX, by region, cheapest first
Region Typical spot On-demand Spot saving
eu-south-1 Milan $0.2424 $2.424 90%
ap-northeast-2 Seoul $0.2662 $2.544 90%
ca-central-1 Canada Central $0.3204 $2.304 86%
us-east-2 Ohio $0.4141 $2.064 80%
ap-south-1 Mumbai $0.5640 $1.333 58%
sa-east-1 São Paulo $0.5710 $3.312 83%
us-east-1 N. Virginia $0.6359 $2.064 69%
eu-west-3 Paris $0.6649 $2.424 73%
us-west-2 Oregon $0.7226 $2.064 65%
us-west-1 N. California $0.7612 $2.424 69%
eu-west-2 London $0.8354 $2.400 65%
ap-northeast-1 Tokyo $0.8620 $2.688 68%
ap-southeast-1 Singapore $0.9745 $2.592 62%
eu-central-1 Frankfurt $1.040 $2.496 58%
eu-west-1 Ireland $1.060 $2.304 54%
ap-southeast-2 Sydney $1.137 $2.592 56%
Solid: spot, the daily mean of all zones (the typical spot above takes the cheapest zone). Dashed: on-demand. UTC days.
m5a.16xlarge64 vCPU, 256 GiB, 16 regions
m5a.16xlarge prices per hour on Linux/UNIX, by region, cheapest first
Region Typical spot On-demand Spot saving
eu-south-1 Milan $0.3232 $3.232 90%
ap-northeast-2 Seoul $0.3392 $3.392 90%
ca-central-1 Canada Central $0.4289 $3.072 86%
us-east-2 Ohio $0.5207 $2.752 81%
eu-west-3 Paris $0.5956 $3.232 82%
us-east-1 N. Virginia $0.7857 $2.752 71%
ap-south-1 Mumbai $0.7955 $1.778 55%
sa-east-1 São Paulo $0.8108 $4.416 82%
ap-northeast-1 Tokyo $0.8662 $3.584 76%
us-west-1 N. California $0.9084 $3.232 72%
us-west-2 Oregon $0.9224 $2.752 66%
eu-west-2 London $1.212 $3.200 62%
ap-southeast-1 Singapore $1.306 $3.456 62%
ap-southeast-2 Sydney $1.342 $3.456 61%
eu-central-1 Frankfurt $1.353 $3.328 59%
eu-west-1 Ireland $1.461 $3.072 52%
Solid: spot, the daily mean of all zones (the typical spot above takes the cheapest zone). Dashed: on-demand. UTC days.
m5a.24xlarge96 vCPU, 384 GiB, 16 regions
m5a.24xlarge prices per hour on Linux/UNIX, by region, cheapest first
Region Typical spot On-demand Spot saving
eu-south-1 Milan $0.4848 $4.848 90%
us-east-2 Ohio $0.5505 $4.128 87%
eu-west-3 Paris $0.7244 $4.848 85%
us-west-1 N. California $0.8092 $4.848 83%
ap-south-1 Mumbai $1.087 $2.666 59%
us-east-1 N. Virginia $1.135 $4.128 72%
sa-east-1 São Paulo $1.150 $6.624 83%
ap-northeast-1 Tokyo $1.299 $5.376 76%
us-west-2 Oregon $1.373 $4.128 67%
ap-northeast-2 Seoul $1.376 $5.088 73%
ap-southeast-1 Singapore $1.605 $5.184 69%
ap-southeast-2 Sydney $1.696 $5.184 67%
eu-west-2 London $1.709 $4.800 64%
eu-central-1 Frankfurt $1.867 $4.992 63%
eu-west-1 Ireland $2.211 $4.608 52%
ca-central-1 Canada Central $4.608 $4.608 0%
Solid: spot, the daily mean of all zones (the typical spot above takes the cheapest zone). Dashed: on-demand. UTC days.
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