m5.xlarge · EC2 Prices

m General purpose

5 Generation 5

xlarge 4 vCPU · 16 GiB

$78.11/mo

3-yr reserved in Tokyo

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 Tokyo. Bars are relative to on-demand.

Plan	Monthly	Yearly	Saves
On-demand Pay by the second, no commitment	$181	$2,172
Reserved, 1 yr No upfront, this size and region	$114	$1,367	−37%
Reserved, 3 yr No upfront, this size and region	$78.11	$937	−57%

Plan

Monthly

Yearly

Saves

On-demand

Pay by the second, no commitment

$181

$2,172

Reserved, 1 yr

No upfront, this size and region

$114

$1,367

−37%

Reserved, 3 yr

No upfront, this size and region

$78.11

$937

−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.

$39 large $78 xl $156 2xl $313 4xl $626 8xl $939 12xl $1.3k 16xl $1.9k 24xl $1.9k metal

Price in every region

Cheapest in US East (N. Virginia). Moving from Tokyo would save $210 a year per instance.

US East (N. Virginia) us-east-1$60.59 −22%US East (Ohio) us-east-2$60.59 −22%US West (Oregon) us-west-2$60.59 −22%Asia Pacific (Mumbai) ap-south-1$63.51 −19%Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) ap-south-2$63.51 −19%Europe (Stockholm) eu-north-1$64.24 −18%Canada (Central) ca-central-1$67.16 −14%Canada West (Calgary) ca-west-1$67.16 −14%Europe (Spain) eu-south-2$67.16 −14%Europe (Ireland) eu-west-1$67.16 −14%Europe (London) eu-west-2$70.08 −10%Europe (Milan) eu-south-1$70.81 −9%Europe (Paris) eu-west-3$70.81 −9%US West (N. California) us-west-1$70.81 −9%Israel (Tel Aviv) il-central-1$70.81 −9%Europe (Frankfurt) eu-central-1$72.27 −7%

Middle East (UAE) me-central-1$74.46 −5%Middle East (Bahrain) me-south-1$74.46 −5%Asia Pacific (Seoul) ap-northeast-2$74.46 −5%Asia Pacific (Singapore) ap-southeast-1$75.92 −3%Asia Pacific (Sydney) ap-southeast-2$75.92 −3%Asia Pacific (Jakarta) ap-southeast-3$75.92 −3%Asia Pacific (Melbourne) ap-southeast-4$75.92 −3%AWS GovCloud (US-East) us-gov-east-1$76.65 −2%AWS GovCloud (US-West) us-gov-west-1$76.65 −2%Asia Pacific (Tokyo) ap-northeast-1$78.11 base Asia Pacific (Osaka) ap-northeast-3$78.11 0%Europe (Zurich) eu-central-2$79.57 +2%Africa (Cape Town) af-south-1$80.30 +3%Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) ap-east-1$83.22 +7%South America (São Paulo) sa-east-1$96.36 +23%

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

Same shape, other families

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

Instance	Processor	Generation	Local disk	Price/mo	vs m5.xlarge
t4g.xlarge	Graviton2	Gen 4	EBS only	$54.53	−30%
t3a.xlarge	EPYC Naples	Gen 3	EBS only	$61.76	−21%
m6g.xlarge	Graviton2	Gen 6	EBS only	$63.07	−19%
t3.xlarge	Xeon Skylake	Newest	EBS only	$68.62	−12%
m7g.xlarge	Graviton3	Gen 7	EBS only	$69.72	−11%
m5a.xlarge	EPYC Naples	Gen 5	EBS only	$70.81	−9%
m6a.xlarge	EPYC Milan	Gen 6	EBS only	$73.80	−6%
m6gd.xlarge	Graviton2	Gen 6	237 GB NVMe	$74.09	−5%
m8g.xlarge	Graviton4	Gen 8	EBS only	$76.66	−2%
m5.xlarge	Xeon Skylake	Newest	EBS only	$78.11	—
m7i-flex.xlarge	Xeon Sapphire Rapids	Gen 7	EBS only	$81.79	+5%
m6i.xlarge	Xeon Ice Lake	Gen 6	EBS only	$81.99	+5%
m5ad.xlarge	EPYC Naples	Gen 5	150 GB NVMe	$84.68	+8%
m7i.xlarge	Xeon Sapphire Rapids	Gen 7	EBS only	$86.09	+10%
m7gd.xlarge	Graviton3	Gen 7	237 GB NVMe	$87.02	+11%
t2.xlarge	Xeon Family	Gen 2	EBS only	$87.67	+12%
m5d.xlarge	Xeon Skylake	Gen 5	150 GB NVMe	$91.98	+18%
m4.xlarge	Xeon Haswell	Gen 4	EBS only	$93.00	+19%
m5n.xlarge	Xeon Cascade Lake	Gen 5	EBS only	$96.36	+23%
m6id.xlarge	Xeon Ice Lake	Gen 6	237 GB NVMe	$96.69	+24%
m7a.xlarge	EPYC Genoa	Gen 7	EBS only	$99.00	+27%
m5dn.xlarge	Xeon Cascade Lake	Gen 5	150 GB NVMe	$110	+41%
m6in.xlarge	Xeon Ice Lake	Gen 6	EBS only	$113	+45%
m6idn.xlarge	Xeon Ice Lake	Gen 6	237 GB NVMe	$129	+65%
m5zn.xlarge	Xeon Cascade Lake	Gen 5	EBS only	$136	+74%
im4gn.xlarge	Graviton2	Gen 4	1.9 TB SSD	$142	+82%
d3en.xlarge	Xeon Cascade Lake	Gen 3	28 TB HDD	$240	+207%

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