AWS Amazon EC2

m5.12xlarge

Part of the M5 General Purpose family — Balanced compute, memory, and networking for a wide range of workloads.

Name:mGeneral Purpose55th Generation12xlarge12 Extra Large

On-demand, Linux

$2.3040/ hr

~$1,681.92/mo · lowest in US East (N. Virginia), us-east-1

Savings Plan, Linux

$1.1680/ hr

From, with a 3-year Compute Savings Plan, No Upfront: −49% vs on-demand rate (us-east-1)

Per unit

$0.0480/ vCPU-hr

$0.0120/GB-hr

Compute

48vCPUs

24 cores • x86_64

Memory

192GB

4.0 GB / vCPU

Network

10 Gbps

Baseline: 12 Gbps

Storage & EBS

1,187.5MB/s

Max: 40,000 IOPS

Alternatives to m5.12xlarge

Option	Price vs m5.12xlarge	Why look at it
m6i.12xlarge Compare →	same price Linux on-demand, us-east-1	Newer generation, same vCPU and RAM
m7i.12xlarge Compare →	+5%+$0.115/hr Linux on-demand, us-east-1	Newer generation, same vCPU and RAM
m7g.12xlarge Compare →	-15%-$0.346/hr Linux on-demand, us-east-1	Graviton (arm64), newer generation, same vCPU and RAM

On Google Cloud

The nearest Google Cloud machines to m5.12xlarge by vCPU and memory, at On-demand Linux rates in Northern Virginia (us-east-1 ↔ us-east4).

Machine	Size	On-demand Linux	vs m5.12xlarge
m5.12xlargeThis page · AWS, us-east-1	48 vCPU · 192 GiB	$2.3040/hr	—
n4-standard-48same 48 vCPU and 192 GiB; Intel on both	48 vCPU · 192 GiB	$2.1768/hr	5.5% less
n2-standard-48same 48 vCPU and 192 GiB; Intel on both	48 vCPU · 192 GiB	$2.625072/hr	14% more
n4d-standard-48same 48 vCPU and 192 GiB; Intel vs AMD	48 vCPU · 192 GiB	$2.0328/hr	12% less

Matched on vCPU and memory, then CPU vendor, then rate; a larger size is offered only when nothing is the same size. On-demand Linux only: Spot and commitments work differently on the two clouds, so they aren't compared here.

Technical Specifications & Limits

Hardware specs, container thresholds, and system limits

Compute & Processor

ProcessorIntel Xeon Platinum 8175

Architecturex86_64 (x86_64)

vCPUs / Threads48 vCPUs

Physical Cores24

Clock Speed3.1 GHz

Intel AVX / AVX2AVX & AVX2 Supported

Intel Turbo BoostYes

Bare MetalNo (Virtualized)

Performance & Benchmarks

CoreMark Score680,240

CoreMark / vCPU14,171.7 / core

FFmpeg Transcoding157 FPS

CoreMark per Dollar295,243 score / $

Cost per vCPU-hr$0.0480

Cost per GB-hr$0.0120

Containers & Kubernetes

EKS Max Pods234 pods

Max ENIs8

IPv4/v6 per ENI30

Total Addressable IPs240 total IPs

CNI Prefix DelegationSupported (High Density)

Networking & Bandwidth

Network Performance10 Gbps

Baseline Bandwidth12 Gbps

Burst / Peak Bandwidth12 Gbps

Enhanced NetworkingYes

EFA SupportNo

IPv6 SupportNative Dual-Stack Supported

Storage & EBS Optimization

Storage ConfigurationEBS only

Local NVMe DiskNone (EBS only)

EBS Baseline Throughput1187.5 MB/s

EBS Max Throughput1187.5 MB/s

EBS Baseline IOPS40,000

EBS Max / Burst IOPS40,000

Dedicated EBS Throughput7000 Mbps

Platform & Architecture Details

Hypervisor / SystemAWS Nitro System (PCIe Offload)

Nitro EnclavesSupported (Isolated security enclaves)

Normalization Factor96

Generation StatusCurrent Generation (Recommended)

Rates by region

Live on-demand rates across all global AWS cloud regions

Lowest Price Region

$2.3040/ hr

US East (N. Virginia) (us-east-1)

Highest Price Region

$4.2230/ hr

Argentina (Buenos Aires) (us-east-1-bue-1)

Global Fleet Average

$2.8561/ hr

Across all active regions

Regional Coverage

37regions

Available worldwide

Linux — Available in all 37 regions
Region	On-Demand Price	% vs On-Demand Rate
af-south-1 Africa (Cape Town)	$3.0480
us-east-1-bue-1 Argentina (Buenos Aires) Highest	$4.2230
ap-east-1 Asia Pacific (Hong Kong)	$3.1680
ap-south-2 Asia Pacific (Hyderabad)	$2.4240
ap-southeast-3 Asia Pacific (Jakarta)	$2.8800
ap-southeast-4 Asia Pacific (Melbourne)	$2.8800
ap-south-1 Asia Pacific (Mumbai)	$2.4240
ap-northeast-3 Asia Pacific (Osaka)	$2.9760
ap-northeast-2 Asia Pacific (Seoul)	$2.8320
ap-southeast-1 Asia Pacific (Singapore)	$2.8800
ap-southeast-2 Asia Pacific (Sydney)	$2.8800
ap-northeast-1 Asia Pacific (Tokyo)	$2.9760
us-gov-east-1 AWS GovCloud (US-East)	$2.9040
us-gov-west-1 AWS GovCloud (US-West)	$2.9040
ca-central-1 Canada (Central)	$2.5680
ca-west-1 Canada West (Calgary)	$2.5680
us-east-1-scl-1 Chile (Santiago)	$3.8560
eu-central-1 EU (Frankfurt)	$2.7600
eu-west-1 EU (Ireland)	$2.5680
eu-west-2 EU (London)	$2.6640
eu-south-1 EU (Milan)	$2.6880
eu-west-3 EU (Paris)	$2.6880
eu-north-1 EU (Stockholm)	$2.4480
eu-south-2 Europe (Spain)	$2.5680
eu-central-2 Europe (Zurich)	$3.0360
il-central-1 Israel (Tel Aviv)	$2.6960
me-south-1 Middle East (Bahrain)	$2.8250
me-central-1 Middle East (UAE)	$2.8250
sa-east-1 South America (Sao Paulo)	$3.6720
ap-northeast-1-tpe-1 Taiwan (Taipei)	$3.7200
us-east-1-mia-1 US East (Miami)	$2.8800
us-east-1 US East (N. Virginia) Lowest	$2.3040
us-east-2 US East (Ohio) Lowest	$2.3040
us-west-2-den-1 US West (Denver)	$2.8800
us-west-2-lax-1 US West (Los Angeles)	$2.7650
us-west-1 US West (N. California)	$2.6880
us-west-2 US West (Oregon) Lowest	$2.3040

Windows — Available in all 37 regions
Region	On-Demand Price	% vs On-Demand Rate
af-south-1 Africa (Cape Town)	$5.2560
us-east-1-bue-1 Argentina (Buenos Aires) Highest	$6.4310
ap-east-1 Asia Pacific (Hong Kong)	$5.3760
ap-south-2 Asia Pacific (Hyderabad)	$4.6320
ap-southeast-3 Asia Pacific (Jakarta)	$5.0880
ap-southeast-4 Asia Pacific (Melbourne)	$5.0880
ap-south-1 Asia Pacific (Mumbai)	$4.6320
ap-northeast-3 Asia Pacific (Osaka)	$5.1840
ap-northeast-2 Asia Pacific (Seoul)	$5.0400
ap-southeast-1 Asia Pacific (Singapore)	$5.0880
ap-southeast-2 Asia Pacific (Sydney)	$5.0880
ap-northeast-1 Asia Pacific (Tokyo)	$5.1840
us-gov-east-1 AWS GovCloud (US-East)	$5.1120
us-gov-west-1 AWS GovCloud (US-West)	$5.1120
ca-central-1 Canada (Central)	$4.7760
ca-west-1 Canada West (Calgary)	$4.7760
us-east-1-scl-1 Chile (Santiago)	$6.0640
eu-central-1 EU (Frankfurt)	$4.9680
eu-west-1 EU (Ireland)	$4.7760
eu-west-2 EU (London)	$4.8720
eu-south-1 EU (Milan)	$4.8960
eu-west-3 EU (Paris)	$4.8960
eu-north-1 EU (Stockholm)	$4.6560
eu-south-2 Europe (Spain)	$4.7760
eu-central-2 Europe (Zurich)	$5.2440
il-central-1 Israel (Tel Aviv)	$4.9040
me-south-1 Middle East (Bahrain)	$5.0330
me-central-1 Middle East (UAE)	$5.0330
sa-east-1 South America (Sao Paulo)	$5.8800
ap-northeast-1-tpe-1 Taiwan (Taipei)	$5.9280
us-east-1-mia-1 US East (Miami)	$5.0880
us-east-1 US East (N. Virginia) Lowest	$4.5120
us-east-2 US East (Ohio) Lowest	$4.5120
us-west-2-den-1 US West (Denver)	$5.0880
us-west-2-lax-1 US West (Los Angeles)	$4.9730
us-west-1 US West (N. California)	$4.8960
us-west-2 US West (Oregon) Lowest	$4.5120

Savings Plans: what to know

A Savings Plan commits you to a dollar amount per hour of spend for one or three years, not to an instance: usage up to that amount is billed at the plan's rates and the rest at on-demand, and unused commitment is still billed.
A Compute Savings Plan follows your usage across instance families, sizes, regions and operating systems; an EC2 Instance Savings Plan is locked to one family in one region in exchange for a lower rate (what that flexibility costs).
In US East (N. Virginia) (us-east-1), the 3-year Compute Savings Plan rate (No Upfront) for m5.12xlarge on Linux is 51% of the on-demand rate, so the instance has to run at least 51% of the hours for the commitment to cost less than on-demand.
On Windows a plan discounts only the compute part of the rate: the Windows license part costs the same as on demand, so the percentage off is smaller than on Linux.
Rates are AWS's effective hourly rate for each payment option; All Upfront pays the whole term's commitment at purchase, which is why its hourly rate is lower; Partial Upfront (at least half up front) isn't shown on this page. The Savings Plans calculator has all three and sizes a commitment for this instance or a mix of them. How AWS applies a plan each hour: how Compute Savings Plans decide what they cover. Sizing one for elastic workloads: managing Compute Savings Plans.