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m5zn EC2 instance family

Intel Xeon Platinum 8252C at 4.5 GHz, x86_64, 2 to 48 vCPUs, 8 to 192 GiB

Prices Description Specs Performance ranking Available Regions Prices by region
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m5zn prices per hour on Windows, each type in its cheapest region
Type vCPU Memory Typical spot On-demand Cheapest region Per vCPU-hour
m5zn.large2 vCPU, 8 GiB 2 8 GiB $0.1085 $0.2572 us-east-1 of 11 $0.0542
m5zn.xlarge4 vCPU, 16 GiB 4 16 GiB $0.2170 $0.5143 us-east-1 of 11 $0.0542
m5zn.2xlarge8 vCPU, 32 GiB 8 32 GiB $0.4341 $1.029 us-east-1 of 11 $0.0543
m5zn.3xlarge12 vCPU, 48 GiB 12 48 GiB $0.6511 $1.543 us-east-1 of 11 $0.0543
m5zn.6xlarge24 vCPU, 96 GiB 24 96 GiB $1.302 $3.086 us-east-1 of 11 $0.0543
m5zn.12xlarge48 vCPU, 192 GiB 48 192 GiB $2.604 $6.172 us-east-1 of 11 $0.0543
m5zn.metal48 vCPU, 192 GiB 48 192 GiB $2.604 $6.172 us-east-1 of 11 $0.0543

Per hour on Windows, 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 M5ZN instance family, generally available since December 1, 2020, is powered by custom 2nd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Cascade Lake 8252C) featuring an all-core turbo frequency up to 4.5 GHz. These high-frequency instances deliver up to 100 Gbps of network bandwidth, with support for Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) and up to 19 Gbps of dedicated throughput to Amazon EBS. M5ZN instances are EBS-optimized and, unlike some M5 variants, do not include local NVMe instance storage, making them ideal for high-performance computing, gaming, and simulation modeling applications.

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

Instance Types
m5zn.large m5zn.xlarge m5zn.2xlarge m5zn.3xlarge m5zn.6xlarge m5zn.12xlarge m5zn.metal
vCPUs
2 to 48
Memory
8 to 192 GiB
Architecture
x86_64
Processor
Intel Xeon Platinum 8252C
Sustained clock
4.5 GHz
Single-thread PassMark
2549 measured on m5zn, 2026-09-30: the median of its types in runs-on.com benchmarks
Specs of each type
Type vCPU Memory Local storage Network EBS
m5zn.large 2 8 GiB EBS only up to 25 (3 baseline) up to 3.17 (0.8 baseline)
m5zn.xlarge 4 16 GiB EBS only up to 25 (5 baseline) up to 3.17 (1.564 baseline)
m5zn.2xlarge 8 32 GiB EBS only up to 25 (10 baseline) 3.17
m5zn.3xlarge 12 48 GiB EBS only up to 25 (15 baseline) 4.75
m5zn.6xlarge 24 96 GiB EBS only 50 9.5
m5zn.12xlarge 48 192 GiB EBS only 100 19
m5zn.metal 48 192 GiB EBS only 100 19

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

11 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 Windows, 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).

m5zn.large2 vCPU, 8 GiB, 11 regions
m5zn.large prices per hour on Windows, by region, cheapest first
Region Typical spot On-demand Spot saving
us-east-1 N. Virginia $0.1085 $0.2572 58%
us-east-2 Ohio $0.1085 $0.2572 58%
ap-northeast-2 Seoul $0.1123 $0.2950 62%
us-west-2 Oregon $0.1155 $0.2572 55%
us-west-1 N. California $0.1168 $0.2847 59%
sa-east-1 São Paulo $0.1183 $0.3552 67%
ap-southeast-2 Sydney $0.1223 $0.2985 59%
ap-southeast-1 Singapore $0.1269 $0.2985 57%
eu-central-1 Frankfurt $0.1271 $0.2899 56%
ap-northeast-1 Tokyo $0.1297 $0.3054 58%
eu-west-1 Ireland $0.1360 $0.2761 51%
Solid: spot, the daily mean of all zones (the typical spot above takes the cheapest zone). Dashed: on-demand. UTC days.
m5zn.xlarge4 vCPU, 16 GiB, 11 regions
m5zn.xlarge prices per hour on Windows, by region, cheapest first
Region Typical spot On-demand Spot saving
us-east-1 N. Virginia $0.2170 $0.5143 58%
us-east-2 Ohio $0.2170 $0.5143 58%
ap-northeast-2 Seoul $0.2246 $0.5900 62%
us-west-1 N. California $0.2337 $0.5694 59%
us-west-2 Oregon $0.2355 $0.5143 54%
sa-east-1 São Paulo $0.2367 $0.7105 67%
ap-southeast-2 Sydney $0.2455 $0.5970 59%
eu-central-1 Frankfurt $0.2543 $0.5797 56%
ap-southeast-1 Singapore $0.2544 $0.5970 57%
ap-northeast-1 Tokyo $0.2595 $0.6107 58%
eu-west-1 Ireland $0.2719 $0.5522 51%
Solid: spot, the daily mean of all zones (the typical spot above takes the cheapest zone). Dashed: on-demand. UTC days.
m5zn.2xlarge8 vCPU, 32 GiB, 11 regions
m5zn.2xlarge prices per hour on Windows, by region, cheapest first
Region Typical spot On-demand Spot saving
us-east-1 N. Virginia $0.4341 $1.029 58%
us-east-2 Ohio $0.4341 $1.029 58%
ap-northeast-2 Seoul $0.4492 $1.180 62%
us-west-2 Oregon $0.4622 $1.029 55%
us-west-1 N. California $0.4684 $1.139 59%
sa-east-1 São Paulo $0.4733 $1.421 67%
ap-southeast-2 Sydney $0.4891 $1.194 59%
ap-southeast-1 Singapore $0.5076 $1.194 57%
eu-central-1 Frankfurt $0.5089 $1.159 56%
ap-northeast-1 Tokyo $0.5191 $1.221 57%
eu-west-1 Ireland $0.5439 $1.104 51%
Solid: spot, the daily mean of all zones (the typical spot above takes the cheapest zone). Dashed: on-demand. UTC days.
m5zn.3xlarge12 vCPU, 48 GiB, 11 regions
m5zn.3xlarge prices per hour on Windows, by region, cheapest first
Region Typical spot On-demand Spot saving
us-east-1 N. Virginia $0.6511 $1.543 58%
us-east-2 Ohio $0.6511 $1.543 58%
ap-northeast-2 Seoul $0.6738 $1.770 62%
ap-southeast-1 Singapore $0.6759 $1.791 62%
us-west-2 Oregon $0.6876 $1.543 55%
us-west-1 N. California $0.7081 $1.708 59%
sa-east-1 São Paulo $0.7099 $2.131 67%
ap-southeast-2 Sydney $0.7342 $1.791 59%
eu-central-1 Frankfurt $0.7627 $1.739 56%
ap-northeast-1 Tokyo $0.7783 $1.832 58%
eu-west-1 Ireland $0.8161 $1.657 51%
Solid: spot, the daily mean of all zones (the typical spot above takes the cheapest zone). Dashed: on-demand. UTC days.
m5zn.6xlarge24 vCPU, 96 GiB, 11 regions
m5zn.6xlarge prices per hour on Windows, by region, cheapest first
Region Typical spot On-demand Spot saving
us-east-1 N. Virginia $1.302 $3.086 58%
us-east-2 Ohio $1.302 $3.086 58%
us-west-2 Oregon $1.302 $3.086 58%
eu-central-1 Frankfurt $1.341 $3.478 61%
ap-northeast-2 Seoul $1.348 $3.540 62%
ap-southeast-1 Singapore $1.352 $3.582 62%
ap-southeast-2 Sydney $1.352 $3.582 62%
us-west-1 N. California $1.392 $3.416 59%
sa-east-1 São Paulo $1.420 $4.263 67%
ap-northeast-1 Tokyo $1.439 $3.664 61%
eu-west-1 Ireland $1.635 $3.313 51%
Solid: spot, the daily mean of all zones (the typical spot above takes the cheapest zone). Dashed: on-demand. UTC days.
m5zn.12xlarge48 vCPU, 192 GiB, 11 regions
m5zn.12xlarge prices per hour on Windows, by region, cheapest first
Region Typical spot On-demand Spot saving
us-east-1 N. Virginia $2.604 $6.172 58%
us-east-2 Ohio $2.604 $6.172 58%
us-west-2 Oregon $2.604 $6.172 58%
eu-west-1 Ireland $2.650 $6.626 60%
us-west-1 N. California $2.671 $6.833 61%
eu-central-1 Frankfurt $2.683 $6.957 61%
ap-northeast-2 Seoul $2.695 $7.080 62%
ap-southeast-1 Singapore $2.704 $7.164 62%
ap-southeast-2 Sydney $2.704 $7.164 62%
ap-northeast-1 Tokyo $2.720 $7.328 63%
sa-east-1 São Paulo $2.840 $8.526 67%
Solid: spot, the daily mean of all zones (the typical spot above takes the cheapest zone). Dashed: on-demand. UTC days.
m5zn.metal48 vCPU, 192 GiB, 11 regions
m5zn.metal prices per hour on Windows, by region, cheapest first
Region Typical spot On-demand Spot saving
us-east-1 N. Virginia $2.604 $6.172 58%
us-east-2 Ohio $2.604 $6.172 58%
eu-west-1 Ireland $2.650 $6.626 60%
eu-central-1 Frankfurt $2.683 $6.957 61%
ap-northeast-2 Seoul $2.695 $7.080 62%
ap-southeast-1 Singapore $2.704 $7.164 62%
ap-southeast-2 Sydney $2.704 $7.164 62%
us-west-1 N. California $2.731 $6.833 60%
us-west-2 Oregon $2.770 $6.172 55%
sa-east-1 São Paulo $2.858 $8.526 66%
ap-northeast-1 Tokyo $3.124 $7.328 57%
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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