m5.xlarge · EC2 Prices

m General purpose

5 Generation 5

xlarge 4 vCPU · 16 GiB

$0.1590/hr

1-yr reserved in Zurich

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 Zurich. Bars are relative to on-demand.

Plan	Monthly	Yearly	Saves
On-demand Pay by the second, no commitment	$185	$2,216
Reserved, 1 yr No upfront, this size and region	$116	$1,393	−37%
Reserved, 3 yr No upfront, this size and region	$79.57	$955	−57%

Plan

Monthly

Yearly

Saves

On-demand

Pay by the second, no commitment

$185

$2,216

Reserved, 1 yr

No upfront, this size and region

$116

$1,393

−37%

Reserved, 3 yr

No upfront, this size and region

$79.57

$955

−57%

What will it cost me?

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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.

$0.080 large $0.159 xl $0.319 2xl $0.638 4xl $1.27 8xl $1.91 12xl $2.55 16xl $3.83 24xl $3.83 metal

Price in every region

Cheapest in US East (N. Virginia). Moving from Zurich would save $333 a year per instance.

US East (N. Virginia) us-east-1$0.1210 −24%US East (Ohio) us-east-2$0.1210 −24%US West (Oregon) us-west-2$0.1210 −24%Asia Pacific (Mumbai) ap-south-1$0.1270 −20%Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) ap-south-2$0.1270 −20%Europe (Stockholm) eu-north-1$0.1290 −19%Canada (Central) ca-central-1$0.1350 −15%Canada West (Calgary) ca-west-1$0.1350 −15%Europe (Spain) eu-south-2$0.1350 −15%Europe (Ireland) eu-west-1$0.1350 −15%Europe (London) eu-west-2$0.1400 −12%Europe (Milan) eu-south-1$0.1410 −11%Europe (Paris) eu-west-3$0.1410 −11%US West (N. California) us-west-1$0.1410 −11%Israel (Tel Aviv) il-central-1$0.1420 −11%Europe (Frankfurt) eu-central-1$0.1450 −9%

Asia Pacific (Seoul) ap-northeast-2$0.1470 −8%Middle East (UAE) me-central-1$0.1480 −7%Middle East (Bahrain) me-south-1$0.1480 −7%Asia Pacific (Singapore) ap-southeast-1$0.1510 −5%Asia Pacific (Sydney) ap-southeast-2$0.1510 −5%Asia Pacific (Jakarta) ap-southeast-3$0.1510 −5%Asia Pacific (Melbourne) ap-southeast-4$0.1510 −5%AWS GovCloud (US-East) us-gov-east-1$0.1520 −4%AWS GovCloud (US-West) us-gov-west-1$0.1520 −4%Asia Pacific (Tokyo) ap-northeast-1$0.1560 −2%Asia Pacific (Osaka) ap-northeast-3$0.1560 −2%Europe (Zurich) eu-central-2$0.1590 base Africa (Cape Town) af-south-1$0.1600 +1%Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) ap-east-1$0.1660 +4%South America (São Paulo) sa-east-1$0.1810 +14%

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

Same shape, other families

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

Instance	Processor	Generation	Local disk	Price/hr	vs m5.xlarge
t4g.xlarge	Graviton2	Gen 4	EBS only	$0.1064	−33%
m6g.xlarge	Graviton2	Gen 6	EBS only	$0.1275	−20%
t3.xlarge	Xeon Skylake	Newest	EBS only	$0.1331	−16%
m7g.xlarge	Graviton3	Gen 7	EBS only	$0.1423	−11%
m6gd.xlarge	Graviton2	Gen 6	237 GB NVMe	$0.1501	−6%
m8g.xlarge	Graviton4	Gen 8	EBS only	$0.1565	−2%
m5.xlarge	Xeon Skylake	Newest	EBS only	$0.1590	—
m6i.xlarge	Xeon Ice Lake	Gen 6	EBS only	$0.1674	+5%
m7i.xlarge	Xeon Sapphire Rapids	Gen 7	EBS only	$0.1757	+11%
m5d.xlarge	Xeon Skylake	Gen 5	150 GB NVMe	$0.1880	+18%
m6id.xlarge	Xeon Ice Lake	Gen 6	237 GB NVMe	$0.1979	+24%
m6in.xlarge	Xeon Ice Lake	Gen 6	EBS only	$0.2312	+45%
m6idn.xlarge	Xeon Ice Lake	Gen 6	237 GB NVMe	$0.2603	+64%

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