AWS Amazon EC2

m5dn.xlarge

Part of the M5DN General Purpose family — Balanced compute, memory, and networking for a wide range of workloads.

Name:mGeneral Purpose55th GenerationdDirect-Attached NVMe SSDnEnhanced NetworkingxlargeExtra Large (1x)

On-demand, Linux

$0.2720/ hr

~$198.56/mo · lowest in US East (N. Virginia), us-east-1

Savings Plan, Linux

$0.1220/ hr

From, with a 3-year Compute Savings Plan, No Upfront: −55% vs on-demand rate (us-east-1)

Per unit

$0.0680/ vCPU-hr

$0.0170/GB-hr

Compute

4vCPUs

2 cores • x86_64

Memory

16GB

4.0 GB / vCPU

Network

Up to 25 Gbps

Baseline: 4.1 Gbps

Storage & EBS

593.75MB/s

Max: 18,750 IOPS

On Google Cloud

The nearest Google Cloud machines to m5dn.xlarge by vCPU and memory, at On-demand Linux rates in Northern Virginia (us-east-1 ↔ us-east4).

Machine	Size	On-demand Linux	vs m5dn.xlarge
m5dn.xlargeThis page · AWS, us-east-1	4 vCPU · 16 GiB	$0.2720/hr	—
c3-standard-4-lssdsame 4 vCPU and 16 GiB; Intel on both	4 vCPU · 16 GiB	$0.246813/hr	9.3% less
n4-standard-4same 4 vCPU and 16 GiB; Intel on both; local disk on m5dn.xlarge only	4 vCPU · 16 GiB	$0.1814/hr	33% less
c3-standard-4same 4 vCPU and 16 GiB; Intel on both; local disk on m5dn.xlarge only	4 vCPU · 16 GiB	$0.201608/hr	26% 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 8259 (Cascade Lake)

Architecturex86_64 (x86_64)

vCPUs / Threads4 vCPUs

Physical Cores2

Clock Speed3.1 GHz

Intel AVX / AVX2No

Intel Turbo BoostNo

Bare MetalNo (Virtualized)

Performance & Benchmarks

CoreMark Score59,119

CoreMark / vCPU14,779.8 / core

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CoreMark per Dollar217,349 score / $

Cost per vCPU-hr$0.0680

Cost per GB-hr$0.0170

Containers & Kubernetes

EKS Max Pods58 pods

Max ENIs4

IPv4/v6 per ENI15

Total Addressable IPs60 total IPs

CNI Prefix DelegationSupported (High Density)

Networking & Bandwidth

Network PerformanceUp to 25 Gbps

Baseline Bandwidth4.1 Gbps

Burst / Peak Bandwidth25 Gbps

Enhanced NetworkingNo

EFA SupportNo

IPv6 SupportNative Dual-Stack Supported

Storage & EBS Optimization

Storage ConfigurationNVMe SSD (150 GB)

Local NVMe Disk150 GB NVMe SSD

EBS Baseline Throughput143.75 MB/s

EBS Max Throughput593.75 MB/s

EBS Baseline IOPS6,000

EBS Max / Burst IOPS18,750

Dedicated EBS ThroughputUp to 3500 Mbps

Platform & Architecture Details

Hypervisor / SystemAWS Nitro System (PCIe Offload)

Nitro EnclavesSupported (Isolated security enclaves)

Normalization Factor8

Generation StatusCurrent Generation (Recommended)

Rates by region

Live on-demand rates across all global AWS cloud regions

Lowest Price Region

$0.2720/ hr

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

Highest Price Region

$0.3500/ hr

Asia Pacific (Tokyo) (ap-northeast-1)

Global Fleet Average

$0.3124/ hr

Across all active regions

Regional Coverage

9regions

Available worldwide

Linux — Available in all 9 regions
Region	On-Demand Price	% vs On-Demand Rate
ap-southeast-1 Asia Pacific (Singapore)	$0.3340
ap-northeast-1 Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Highest	$0.3500
us-gov-east-1 AWS GovCloud (US-East)	$0.3420
us-gov-west-1 AWS GovCloud (US-West)	$0.3420
eu-central-1 EU (Frankfurt)	$0.3240
eu-west-1 EU (Ireland)	$0.3040
us-east-1 US East (N. Virginia) Lowest	$0.2720
us-east-2 US East (Ohio) Lowest	$0.2720
us-west-2 US West (Oregon) Lowest	$0.2720

Windows — Available in all 9 regions
Region	On-Demand Price	% vs On-Demand Rate
ap-southeast-1 Asia Pacific (Singapore)	$0.5180
ap-northeast-1 Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Highest	$0.5340
us-gov-east-1 AWS GovCloud (US-East)	$0.5260
us-gov-west-1 AWS GovCloud (US-West)	$0.5260
eu-central-1 EU (Frankfurt)	$0.5080
eu-west-1 EU (Ireland)	$0.4880
us-east-1 US East (N. Virginia) Lowest	$0.4560
us-east-2 US East (Ohio) Lowest	$0.4560
us-west-2 US West (Oregon) Lowest	$0.4560

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 m5dn.xlarge on Linux is 45% of the on-demand rate, so the instance has to run at least 45% 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.