AWS Amazon EC2

m5.16xlarge

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

Name:mGeneral Purpose55th Generation16xlarge16 Extra Large

On-demand, Linux

$3.0720/ hr

~$2,242.56/mo · lowest in US East (N. Virginia), us-east-1

Savings Plan, Linux

$1.5580/ 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

64vCPUs

32 cores • x86_64

Memory

256GB

4.0 GB / vCPU

Network

20 Gbps

Baseline: 20 Gbps

Storage & EBS

1,700MB/s

Max: 60,000 IOPS

Alternatives to m5.16xlarge

Option	Price vs m5.16xlarge	Why look at it
m4.16xlarge Compare →	+4%+$0.128/hr Linux on-demand, us-east-1	Previous generation, same vCPU and RAM
m6i.16xlarge Compare →	same price Linux on-demand, us-east-1	Newer generation, same vCPU and RAM
m7i.16xlarge Compare →	+5%+$0.154/hr Linux on-demand, us-east-1	Newer generation, same vCPU and RAM
m7g.16xlarge Compare →	-15%-$0.461/hr Linux on-demand, us-east-1	Graviton (arm64), newer generation, same vCPU and RAM

On Google Cloud

The nearest Google Cloud machines to m5.16xlarge by vCPU and memory, at On-demand Linux rates in Northern Virginia (us-east-1 ↔ us-east4).

Machine	Size	On-demand Linux	vs m5.16xlarge
m5.16xlargeThis page · AWS, us-east-1	64 vCPU · 256 GiB	$3.0720/hr	—
n4-standard-64same 64 vCPU and 256 GiB; Intel on both	64 vCPU · 256 GiB	$2.9024/hr	5.5% less
n2-standard-64same 64 vCPU and 256 GiB; Intel on both	64 vCPU · 256 GiB	$3.500096/hr	14% more
n4d-standard-64same 64 vCPU and 256 GiB; Intel vs AMD	64 vCPU · 256 GiB	$2.7104/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 / Threads64 vCPUs

Physical Cores32

Clock Speed3.1 GHz

Intel AVX / AVX2AVX & AVX2 Supported

Intel Turbo BoostYes

Bare MetalNo (Virtualized)

Performance & Benchmarks

CoreMark Score936,266

CoreMark / vCPU14,629.2 / core

FFmpeg Transcoding161 FPS

CoreMark per Dollar304,774 score / $

Cost per vCPU-hr$0.0480

Cost per GB-hr$0.0120

Containers & Kubernetes

EKS Max Pods737 pods

Max ENIs15

IPv4/v6 per ENI50

Total Addressable IPs750 total IPs

CNI Prefix DelegationSupported (High Density)

Networking & Bandwidth

Network Performance20 Gbps

Baseline Bandwidth20 Gbps

Burst / Peak Bandwidth20 Gbps

Enhanced NetworkingYes

EFA SupportNo

IPv6 SupportNative Dual-Stack Supported

Storage & EBS Optimization

Storage ConfigurationEBS only

Local NVMe DiskNone (EBS only)

EBS Baseline Throughput1700 MB/s

EBS Max Throughput1700 MB/s

EBS Baseline IOPS60,000

EBS Max / Burst IOPS60,000

Dedicated EBS Throughput10000 Mbps

Platform & Architecture Details

Hypervisor / SystemAWS Nitro System (PCIe Offload)

Nitro EnclavesSupported (Isolated security enclaves)

Normalization Factor128

Generation StatusCurrent Generation (Recommended)

Rates by region

Live on-demand rates across all global AWS cloud regions

Lowest Price Region

$3.0720/ hr

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

Highest Price Region

$4.8960/ hr

South America (Sao Paulo) (sa-east-1)

Global Fleet Average

$3.7396/ hr

Across all active regions

Regional Coverage

35regions

Available worldwide

Linux — Available in all 35 regions
Region	On-Demand Price	% vs On-Demand Rate
af-south-1 Africa (Cape Town)	$4.0640
ap-east-1 Asia Pacific (Hong Kong)	$4.2240
ap-south-2 Asia Pacific (Hyderabad)	$3.2320
ap-southeast-3 Asia Pacific (Jakarta)	$3.8400
ap-southeast-4 Asia Pacific (Melbourne)	$3.8400
ap-south-1 Asia Pacific (Mumbai)	$3.2320
ap-northeast-3 Asia Pacific (Osaka)	$3.9680
ap-northeast-2 Asia Pacific (Seoul)	$3.7760
ap-southeast-1 Asia Pacific (Singapore)	$3.8400
ap-southeast-2 Asia Pacific (Sydney)	$3.8400
ap-northeast-1 Asia Pacific (Tokyo)	$3.9680
us-gov-east-1 AWS GovCloud (US-East)	$3.8720
us-gov-west-1 AWS GovCloud (US-West)	$3.8720
ca-central-1 Canada (Central)	$3.4240
ca-west-1 Canada West (Calgary)	$3.4240
eu-central-1 EU (Frankfurt)	$3.6800
eu-west-1 EU (Ireland)	$3.4240
eu-west-2 EU (London)	$3.5520
eu-south-1 EU (Milan)	$3.5840
eu-west-3 EU (Paris)	$3.5840
eu-north-1 EU (Stockholm)	$3.2640
eu-south-2 Europe (Spain)	$3.4240
eu-central-2 Europe (Zurich)	$4.0480
ap-south-1-del-1 India (Delhi)	$4.3630
ap-south-1-ccu-1 India (Kolkata)	$4.3630
il-central-1 Israel (Tel Aviv)	$3.5950
me-south-1 Middle East (Bahrain)	$3.7660
me-central-1 Middle East (UAE)	$3.7660
af-south-1-los-1 Nigeria (Lagos)	$4.6740
sa-east-1 South America (Sao Paulo) Highest	$4.8960
us-east-1 US East (N. Virginia) Lowest	$3.0720
us-east-2 US East (Ohio) Lowest	$3.0720
us-west-2-lax-1 US West (Los Angeles)	$3.6860
us-west-1 US West (N. California)	$3.5840
us-west-2 US West (Oregon) Lowest	$3.0720

Windows — Available in all 35 regions
Region	On-Demand Price	% vs On-Demand Rate
af-south-1 Africa (Cape Town)	$7.0080
ap-east-1 Asia Pacific (Hong Kong)	$7.1680
ap-south-2 Asia Pacific (Hyderabad)	$6.1760
ap-southeast-3 Asia Pacific (Jakarta)	$6.7840
ap-southeast-4 Asia Pacific (Melbourne)	$6.7840
ap-south-1 Asia Pacific (Mumbai)	$6.1760
ap-northeast-3 Asia Pacific (Osaka)	$6.9120
ap-northeast-2 Asia Pacific (Seoul)	$6.7200
ap-southeast-1 Asia Pacific (Singapore)	$6.7840
ap-southeast-2 Asia Pacific (Sydney)	$6.7840
ap-northeast-1 Asia Pacific (Tokyo)	$6.9120
us-gov-east-1 AWS GovCloud (US-East)	$6.8160
us-gov-west-1 AWS GovCloud (US-West)	$6.8160
ca-central-1 Canada (Central)	$6.3680
ca-west-1 Canada West (Calgary)	$6.3680
eu-central-1 EU (Frankfurt)	$6.6240
eu-west-1 EU (Ireland)	$6.3680
eu-west-2 EU (London)	$6.4960
eu-south-1 EU (Milan)	$6.5280
eu-west-3 EU (Paris)	$6.5280
eu-north-1 EU (Stockholm)	$6.2080
eu-south-2 Europe (Spain)	$6.3680
eu-central-2 Europe (Zurich)	$6.9920
ap-south-1-del-1 India (Delhi)	$7.3070
ap-south-1-ccu-1 India (Kolkata)	$7.3070
il-central-1 Israel (Tel Aviv)	$6.5390
me-south-1 Middle East (Bahrain)	$6.7100
me-central-1 Middle East (UAE)	$6.7100
af-south-1-los-1 Nigeria (Lagos)	$7.6180
sa-east-1 South America (Sao Paulo) Highest	$7.8400
us-east-1 US East (N. Virginia) Lowest	$6.0160
us-east-2 US East (Ohio) Lowest	$6.0160
us-west-2-lax-1 US West (Los Angeles)	$6.6300
us-west-1 US West (N. California)	$6.5280
us-west-2 US West (Oregon) Lowest	$6.0160

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 m5.16xlarge 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.