m5.xlarge · EC2 Prices

m General purpose

5 Generation 5

xlarge 4 vCPU · 16 GiB

$164/mo

On-demand in N. California

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. California. Bars are relative to on-demand.

Plan	Monthly	Yearly	Saves
On-demand Pay by the second, no commitment	$164	$1,962
Reserved, 1 yr No upfront, this size and region	$103	$1,235	−37%
Reserved, 3 yr No upfront, this size and region	$70.81	$850	−57%

Plan

Monthly

Yearly

Saves

On-demand

Pay by the second, no commitment

$164

$1,962

Reserved, 1 yr

No upfront, this size and region

$103

$1,235

−37%

Reserved, 3 yr

No upfront, this size and region

$70.81

$850

−57%

What will it cost me?

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/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.

$82 large $164 xl $327 2xl $654 4xl $1.3k 8xl $2.0k 12xl $2.6k 16xl $3.9k 24xl $3.9k metal

Price in every region

Cheapest in US East (N. Virginia). Moving from N. California would save $280 a year per instance.

US East (N. Virginia) us-east-1$140 −14%US East (Ohio) us-east-2$140 −14%US West (Oregon) us-west-2$140 −14%Asia Pacific (Mumbai) ap-south-1$147 −10%Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) ap-south-2$147 −10%Europe (Stockholm) eu-north-1$149 −9%Canada (Central) ca-central-1$156 −4%Canada West (Calgary) ca-west-1$156 −4%Europe (Spain) eu-south-2$156 −4%Europe (Ireland) eu-west-1$156 −4%Europe (London) eu-west-2$162 −1%Europe (Milan) eu-south-1$164 0%Europe (Paris) eu-west-3$164 0%US West (N. California) us-west-1$164 base Israel (Tel Aviv) il-central-1$164 0%Europe (Frankfurt) eu-central-1$168 +3%

Middle East (UAE) me-central-1$172 +5%Middle East (Bahrain) me-south-1$172 +5%Asia Pacific (Seoul) ap-northeast-2$172 +5%Asia Pacific (Singapore) ap-southeast-1$175 +7%Asia Pacific (Sydney) ap-southeast-2$175 +7%Asia Pacific (Jakarta) ap-southeast-3$175 +7%Asia Pacific (Melbourne) ap-southeast-4$175 +7%AWS GovCloud (US-East) us-gov-east-1$177 +8%AWS GovCloud (US-West) us-gov-west-1$177 +8%Asia Pacific (Tokyo) ap-northeast-1$181 +11%Asia Pacific (Osaka) ap-northeast-3$181 +11%Europe (Zurich) eu-central-2$185 +13%Africa (Cape Town) af-south-1$185 +13%Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) ap-east-1$193 +18%South America (São Paulo) sa-east-1$223 +37%

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

Same shape, other families

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

Instance	Processor	Generation	Local disk	Price/mo	vs m5.xlarge
t4g.xlarge	Graviton2	Gen 4	EBS only	$117	−29%
t3a.xlarge	EPYC Naples	Gen 3	EBS only	$130	−20%
m6g.xlarge	Graviton2	Gen 6	EBS only	$131	−20%
m7g.xlarge	Graviton3	Gen 7	EBS only	$139	−15%
t3.xlarge	Xeon Skylake	Newest	EBS only	$145	−11%
m6a.xlarge	EPYC Milan	Gen 6	EBS only	$147	−10%
m5a.xlarge	EPYC Naples	Gen 5	EBS only	$147	−10%
m8g.xlarge	Graviton4	Gen 8	EBS only	$153	−7%
m6gd.xlarge	Graviton2	Gen 6	237 GB NVMe	$155	−5%
t2.xlarge	Xeon Family	Gen 2	EBS only	$161	−1%
m7i-flex.xlarge	Xeon Sapphire Rapids	Gen 7	EBS only	$163	0%
m5.xlarge	Xeon Skylake	Newest	EBS only	$164	—
m6i.xlarge	Xeon Ice Lake	Gen 6	EBS only	$164	0%
m4.xlarge	Xeon Haswell	Gen 4	EBS only	$171	+4%
m8i-flex.xlarge	Xeon Granite Rapids	Newest	EBS only	$171	+5%
m7i.xlarge	Xeon Sapphire Rapids	Gen 7	EBS only	$172	+5%
m5ad.xlarge	EPYC Naples	Gen 5	150 GB NVMe	$178	+9%
m8i.xlarge	Xeon Granite Rapids	Newest	EBS only	$180	+10%
m7gd.xlarge	Graviton3	Gen 7	237 GB NVMe	$184	+12%
m5d.xlarge	Xeon Skylake	Gen 5	150 GB NVMe	$194	+19%
m8gd.xlarge	Graviton4	Gen 8	237 GB NVMe	$198	+21%
m6id.xlarge	Xeon Ice Lake	Gen 6	237 GB NVMe	$204	+25%
m6in.xlarge	Xeon Ice Lake	Gen 6	EBS only	$237	+45%
m6idn.xlarge	Xeon Ice Lake	Gen 6	237 GB NVMe	$268	+64%
m5zn.xlarge	Xeon Cascade Lake	Gen 5	EBS only	$281	+72%

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