M5 General Purpose

Balanced compute, memory, and networking for a wide range of workloads.

Name:mGeneral Purposem = General PurposeBalanced compute, memory, and networking resources for a wide variety of standard enterprise workloads and microservices.55th Generation5 = 5th GenerationAWS 5th generation hardware platform with updated CPU/system architecture.

Common use cases

  • Web servers
  • Application servers
  • Small-to-medium databases
  • Development environments

Head-to-Head Architecture Comparisons

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Generational Evolutionm4 vs m5 vs m6i vs m7i vs m7g

AWS General Purpose Evolution: M4 vs M5 vs M6i vs M7i vs M7g

From Haswell to Sapphire Rapids and Graviton3 in the 4:1 RAM workhorse tier

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Generational Evolutionm5 vs m6i vs m7i

AWS Pure Intel General Purpose Upgrade: M5 vs M6i vs M7i

Modernizing Intel Xeon fleets without recompiling for ARM

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Instance types (8)

InstancevCPUMemoryArchitectureFrom (Linux, $/hr)
m5.large28 GBx86_64$0.0960
m5.xlarge416 GBx86_64$0.1920
m5.2xlarge832 GBx86_64$0.3840
m5.4xlarge1664 GBx86_64$0.7680
m5.8xlarge32128 GBx86_64$1.5360
m5.12xlarge48192 GBx86_64$2.3040
m5.16xlarge64256 GBx86_64$3.0720
m5.24xlarge96384 GBx86_64$4.6080