AWS Amazon EC2

m5zn.xlarge

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 NetworkingxlargeExtra Large (1x)

On-demand, Linux

$0.3303/ hr

~$241.12/mo · lowest in US East (N. Virginia), us-east-1

Savings Plan, Linux

$0.1712/ 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

4vCPUs

2 cores • x86_64

Memory

16GB

4.0 GB / vCPU

Network

Up to 25 Gbps

Baseline: 5 Gbps

Storage & EBS

396.25MB/s

Max: 13,333 IOPS

Alternatives to m5zn.xlarge

Option	Price vs m5zn.xlarge	Why look at it
r7iz.xlarge Compare →	+13%+$0.0417/hr Linux on-demand, us-east-1	Newer generation, 32 GiB RAM instead of 16, same vCPU
z1d.xlarge Compare →	+13%+$0.0417/hr Linux on-demand, us-east-1	Older generation, 32 GiB RAM instead of 16, same vCPU

On Google Cloud

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

Machine	Size	On-demand Linux	vs m5zn.xlarge
m5zn.xlargeThis page · AWS, us-east-1	4 vCPU · 16 GiB	$0.3303/hr	—
n4-standard-4same 4 vCPU and 16 GiB; Intel on both	4 vCPU · 16 GiB	$0.1814/hr	45% less
c3-standard-4same 4 vCPU and 16 GiB; Intel on both	4 vCPU · 16 GiB	$0.201608/hr	39% less
n2-standard-4same 4 vCPU and 16 GiB; Intel on both	4 vCPU · 16 GiB	$0.218756/hr	34% 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 / Threads4 vCPUs

Physical Cores2

Clock Speed4.5 GHz

Intel AVX / AVX2AVX & AVX2 Supported

Intel Turbo BoostYes

Bare MetalNo (Virtualized)

Performance & Benchmarks

CoreMark Score82,402

CoreMark / vCPU20,600.5 / core

FFmpeg Transcoding28 FPS

CoreMark per Dollar249,476 score / $

Cost per vCPU-hr$0.0826

Cost per GB-hr$0.0206

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 Bandwidth5 Gbps

Burst / Peak Bandwidth25 Gbps

Enhanced NetworkingYes

EFA SupportNo

IPv6 SupportNative Dual-Stack Supported

Storage & EBS Optimization

Storage ConfigurationEBS only

Local NVMe DiskNone (EBS only)

EBS Baseline Throughput195.5 MB/s

EBS Max Throughput396.25 MB/s

EBS Baseline IOPS6,667

EBS Max / Burst IOPS13,333

Dedicated EBS ThroughputUp to 3170 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

$0.3303/ hr

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

Highest Price Region

$0.5265/ hr

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

Global Fleet Average

$0.3932/ 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)	$0.4060
ap-southeast-1 Asia Pacific (Singapore)	$0.4130
ap-southeast-2 Asia Pacific (Sydney)	$0.4130
ap-northeast-1 Asia Pacific (Tokyo)	$0.4267
eu-central-1 EU (Frankfurt)	$0.3957
eu-west-1 EU (Ireland)	$0.3682
sa-east-1 South America (Sao Paulo) Highest	$0.5265
us-east-1 US East (N. Virginia) Lowest	$0.3303
us-east-2 US East (Ohio) Lowest	$0.3303
us-west-1 US West (N. California)	$0.3854
us-west-2 US West (Oregon) Lowest	$0.3303

Windows — Available in all 11 regions
Region	On-Demand Price	% vs On-Demand Rate
ap-northeast-2 Asia Pacific (Seoul)	$0.5900
ap-southeast-1 Asia Pacific (Singapore)	$0.5970
ap-southeast-2 Asia Pacific (Sydney)	$0.5970
ap-northeast-1 Asia Pacific (Tokyo)	$0.6107
eu-central-1 EU (Frankfurt)	$0.5797
eu-west-1 EU (Ireland)	$0.5522
sa-east-1 South America (Sao Paulo) Highest	$0.7105
us-east-1 US East (N. Virginia) Lowest	$0.5143
us-east-2 US East (Ohio) Lowest	$0.5143
us-west-1 US West (N. California)	$0.5694
us-west-2 US West (Oregon) Lowest	$0.5143

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.xlarge 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.