M5AD 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.aAMD EPYCa = AMD EPYCAMD EPYC 7571 (x86_64). Powered by AMD EPYC x86_64 processors, delivering high core counts and cost-effective compute performance.dDirect-Attached NVMe SSDd = Direct-Attached NVMe SSDEquipped with physical high-speed NVMe SSD instance store volumes attached locally to the host server for temporary scratch and caching.

Common use cases

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

Instance types (8)

With a 3-year Compute Savings Plan (No Upfront), m5ad sizes on Linux in US East (N. Virginia) (us-east-1) cost 50% less than the on-demand rate. Each size's page has the rates in every region. How Savings Plans are applied.

InstancevCPUMemoryArchitectureFrom (Linux, $/hr)
m5ad.large28 GBx86_64$0.0670
m5ad.xlarge416 GBx86_64$0.1340
m5ad.2xlarge832 GBx86_64$0.2680
m5ad.4xlarge1664 GBx86_64$0.5370
m5ad.8xlarge32128 GBx86_64$1.0740
m5ad.12xlarge48192 GBx86_64$1.6100
m5ad.16xlarge64256 GBx86_64$2.1470
m5ad.24xlarge96384 GBx86_64$3.2210