AWS Amazon EC2

m5zn.6xlarge

Part of the M5ZN General Purpose family — Balanced compute, memory, and networking for a wide range of workloads.

Name:mGeneral Purpose55th GenerationzHigh Frequency Turbo CPUnEnhanced Networking6xlarge6 Extra Large

On-demand, Linux

$1.9820/ hr

~$1,446.86/mo · lowest in US East (N. Virginia), us-east-1

Savings Plan, Linux

$1.0275/ hr

From, with a 3-year Compute Savings Plan, No Upfront: −48% vs on-demand rate (us-east-1)

Per unit

$0.0826/ vCPU-hr

$0.0206/GB-hr

Compute

24vCPUs

12 cores • x86_64

Memory

96GB

4.0 GB / vCPU

Network

50 Gbps

Baseline: 50 Gbps

Storage & EBS

1,187.5MB/s

Max: 40,000 IOPS

Alternatives to m5zn.6xlarge

Option	Price vs m5zn.6xlarge	Why look at it
z1d.6xlarge Compare →	+13%+$0.25/hr Linux on-demand, us-east-1	Older generation, 192 GiB RAM instead of 96, same vCPU

On Google Cloud

The nearest Google Cloud machines to m5zn.6xlarge by vCPU and memory, at On-demand Linux rates in Northern Virginia (us-east-1 ↔ us-east4).

Machine	Size	On-demand Linux	vs m5zn.6xlarge
m5zn.6xlargeThis page · AWS, us-east-1	24 vCPU · 96 GiB	$1.9820/hr	—
c2-standard-3030 vCPU and 120 GiB for 24 vCPU and 96 GiB, the nearest size up; Intel on both; 12 physical cores vs 15	30 vCPU · 120 GiB	$1.76358/hr	11% less
c4-standard-3232 vCPU and 120 GiB for 24 vCPU and 96 GiB, the nearest size up; Intel on both; 12 physical cores vs 16	32 vCPU · 120 GiB	$1.58136/hr	20% less
n1-standard-3232 vCPU and 120 GiB for 24 vCPU and 96 GiB, the nearest size up; Intel on both; 12 physical cores vs 16	32 vCPU · 120 GiB	$1.71188/hr	14% 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 8252

Architecturex86_64 (x86_64)

vCPUs / Threads24 vCPUs

Physical Cores12

Clock Speed4.5 GHz

Intel AVX / AVX2AVX & AVX2 Supported

Intel Turbo BoostYes

Bare MetalNo (Virtualized)

Performance & Benchmarks

CoreMark Score500,913

CoreMark / vCPU20,871.4 / core

FFmpeg Transcoding145 FPS

CoreMark per Dollar252,731 score / $

Cost per vCPU-hr$0.0826

Cost per GB-hr$0.0206

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 Performance50 Gbps

Baseline Bandwidth50 Gbps

Burst / Peak Bandwidth50 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 Throughput9500 Mbps

Platform & Architecture Details

Hypervisor / SystemAWS Nitro System (PCIe Offload)

Nitro EnclavesSupported (Isolated security enclaves)

Normalization Factor48

Generation StatusCurrent Generation (Recommended)

Rates by region

Live on-demand rates across all global AWS cloud regions

Lowest Price Region

$1.9820/ hr

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

Highest Price Region

$3.1589/ hr

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

Global Fleet Average

$2.3594/ hr

Across all active regions

Regional Coverage

11regions

Available worldwide

Linux — Available in all 11 regions
Region	On-Demand Price	% vs On-Demand Rate
ap-northeast-2 Asia Pacific (Seoul)	$2.4360
ap-southeast-1 Asia Pacific (Singapore)	$2.4780
ap-southeast-2 Asia Pacific (Sydney)	$2.4780
ap-northeast-1 Asia Pacific (Tokyo)	$2.5602
eu-central-1 EU (Frankfurt)	$2.3743
eu-west-1 EU (Ireland)	$2.2092
sa-east-1 South America (Sao Paulo) Highest	$3.1589
us-east-1 US East (N. Virginia) Lowest	$1.9820
us-east-2 US East (Ohio) Lowest	$1.9820
us-west-1 US West (N. California)	$2.3124
us-west-2 US West (Oregon) Lowest	$1.9820

Windows — Available in all 11 regions
Region	On-Demand Price	% vs On-Demand Rate
ap-northeast-2 Asia Pacific (Seoul)	$3.5400
ap-southeast-1 Asia Pacific (Singapore)	$3.5820
ap-southeast-2 Asia Pacific (Sydney)	$3.5820
ap-northeast-1 Asia Pacific (Tokyo)	$3.6642
eu-central-1 EU (Frankfurt)	$3.4783
eu-west-1 EU (Ireland)	$3.3132
sa-east-1 South America (Sao Paulo) Highest	$4.2629
us-east-1 US East (N. Virginia) Lowest	$3.0860
us-east-2 US East (Ohio) Lowest	$3.0860
us-west-1 US West (N. California)	$3.4164
us-west-2 US West (Oregon) Lowest	$3.0860

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 m5zn.6xlarge on Linux is 52% of the on-demand rate, so the instance has to run at least 52% 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.