m5.xlarge · EC2 Prices

m General purpose

5 Generation 5

xlarge 4 vCPU · 16 GiB

$88.33/mo

1-yr reserved in N. Virginia

On-demand 1-yr 3-yr

4 vCPU

Xeon Skylake, 3.1 GHz

16 GiB

4 GiB per vCPU

EBS only

Local storage

Up to 10 Gbps

Network bandwidth

Up to 2.12 Gbps

EBS bandwidth

x86_64

Architecture

Every way to pay

Prices in N. Virginia. Bars are relative to on-demand.

Plan	Monthly	Yearly	Saves
On-demand Pay by the second, no commitment	$140	$1,682
Reserved, 1 yr No upfront, this size and region	$88.33	$1,060	−37%
Reserved, 3 yr No upfront, this size and region	$60.59	$727	−57%

Plan

Monthly

Yearly

Saves

On-demand

Pay by the second, no commitment

$140

$1,682

Reserved, 1 yr

No upfront, this size and region

$88.33

$1,060

−37%

Reserved, 3 yr

No upfront, this size and region

$60.59

$727

−57%

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× m5.xlarge, on-demand

/mo

a year

You run these most of the time. A 1-year reservation bills every hour, and would still cost /mo.

Same usage on each plan	Monthly	Yearly
On-demand
Reserved 1 yr
Reserved 3 yr

Reservations bill every hour of the month, whether the instance runs or not.

Other sizes in this family

Price roughly doubles with each step. Pick a size to open it.

$44 large $88 xl $177 2xl $353 4xl $707 8xl $1.1k 12xl $1.4k 16xl $2.1k 24xl $2.1k metal

Price in every region

Cheapest in US East (N. Virginia).

US East (N. Virginia) us-east-1$88.33 base US East (Ohio) us-east-2$88.33 0%US West (Oregon) us-west-2$88.33 0%Asia Pacific (Mumbai) ap-south-1$92.71 +5%Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) ap-south-2$92.71 +5%Europe (Stockholm) eu-north-1$94.17 +7%Canada (Central) ca-central-1$98.55 +12%Canada West (Calgary) ca-west-1$98.55 +12%Europe (Spain) eu-south-2$98.55 +12%Europe (Ireland) eu-west-1$98.55 +12%Europe (London) eu-west-2$102 +16%Europe (Milan) eu-south-1$103 +17%Europe (Paris) eu-west-3$103 +17%US West (N. California) us-west-1$103 +17%Israel (Tel Aviv) il-central-1$104 +17%Europe (Frankfurt) eu-central-1$106 +20%

Asia Pacific (Seoul) ap-northeast-2$107 +21%Middle East (UAE) me-central-1$108 +22%Middle East (Bahrain) me-south-1$108 +22%Asia Pacific (Singapore) ap-southeast-1$110 +25%Asia Pacific (Sydney) ap-southeast-2$110 +25%Asia Pacific (Jakarta) ap-southeast-3$110 +25%Asia Pacific (Melbourne) ap-southeast-4$110 +25%AWS GovCloud (US-East) us-gov-east-1$111 +26%AWS GovCloud (US-West) us-gov-west-1$111 +26%Asia Pacific (Tokyo) ap-northeast-1$114 +29%Asia Pacific (Osaka) ap-northeast-3$114 +29%Europe (Zurich) eu-central-2$116 +31%Africa (Cape Town) af-south-1$117 +32%Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) ap-east-1$121 +37%South America (São Paulo) sa-east-1$132 +50%

Not offered in Central , Malaysia , New Zealand , Thailand , Taipei .

Same shape, other families

Every instance with 4 vCPU · 16 GiB in N. Virginia, ranked by price.

Instance	Processor	Generation	Local disk	Price/mo	vs m5.xlarge
t4g.xlarge	Graviton2	Gen 4	EBS only	$61.54	−30%
t3a.xlarge	EPYC Naples	Gen 3	EBS only	$68.84	−22%
m6g.xlarge	Graviton2	Gen 6	EBS only	$70.52	−20%
t3.xlarge	Xeon Skylake	Newest	EBS only	$76.14	−14%
m7g.xlarge	Graviton3	Gen 7	EBS only	$78.84	−11%
m5a.xlarge	EPYC Naples	Gen 5	EBS only	$78.84	−11%
m6gd.xlarge	Graviton2	Gen 6	237 GB NVMe	$83.15	−6%
m6a.xlarge	EPYC Milan	Gen 6	EBS only	$83.45	−6%
t2.xlarge	Xeon Family	Gen 2	EBS only	$83.95	−5%
m8g.xlarge	Graviton4	Gen 8	EBS only	$86.69	−2%
m5.xlarge	Xeon Skylake	Newest	EBS only	$88.33	—
m4.xlarge	Xeon Haswell	Gen 4	EBS only	$90.45	+2%
m7i-flex.xlarge	Xeon Sapphire Rapids	Gen 7	EBS only	$92.48	+5%
m6i.xlarge	Xeon Ice Lake	Gen 6	EBS only	$92.72	+5%
m5ad.xlarge	EPYC Naples	Gen 5	150 GB NVMe	$94.90	+7%
m7i.xlarge	Xeon Sapphire Rapids	Gen 7	EBS only	$97.35	+10%
m7gd.xlarge	Graviton3	Gen 7	237 GB NVMe	$98.19	+11%
m5d.xlarge	Xeon Skylake	Gen 5	150 GB NVMe	$104	+17%
m6id.xlarge	Xeon Ice Lake	Gen 6	237 GB NVMe	$109	+24%
m5n.xlarge	Xeon Cascade Lake	Gen 5	EBS only	$110	+24%
m7a.xlarge	EPYC Genoa	Gen 7	EBS only	$112	+27%
m5dn.xlarge	Xeon Cascade Lake	Gen 5	150 GB NVMe	$125	+41%
m6in.xlarge	Xeon Ice Lake	Gen 6	EBS only	$128	+45%
m6idn.xlarge	Xeon Ice Lake	Gen 6	237 GB NVMe	$146	+66%
m5zn.xlarge	Xeon Cascade Lake	Gen 5	EBS only	$152	+72%
im4gn.xlarge	Graviton2	Gen 4	1.9 TB SSD	$170	+93%
d3en.xlarge	Xeon Cascade Lake	Gen 3	28 TB HDD	$242	+174%

Specifications

API name: m5.xlarge
Processor: Intel Xeon Platinum 8175
Local storage: EBS only
Family: General purpose
Clock speed: 3.1 GHz
Network: Up to 10 Gbps
Generation: Newest
Architecture: x86_64
EBS bandwidth: Up to 2.12 Gbps
vCPUs: 4
Memory: 16 GiB
GPUs: None