AWS Amazon EC2

m6a.16xlarge

Part of the M6A General Purpose family — Balanced compute, memory, and networking for a wide range of workloads.

Name:mGeneral Purpose66th GenerationaAMD EPYC16xlarge16 Extra Large

On-demand, Linux

$1.7776/ hr

~$1,297.65/mo · lowest in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), ap-south-2

Savings Plan, Linux

$0.89338/ hr

From, with a 3-year Compute Savings Plan, No Upfront: −50% vs on-demand rate (ap-south-2)

Per unit

$0.0278/ vCPU-hr

$0.0069/GB-hr

Compute

64vCPUs

32 cores • x86_64

Memory

256GB

4.0 GB / vCPU

Network

25 Gbps

Baseline: 25 Gbps

Storage & EBS

2,500MB/s

Max: 80,000 IOPS

Alternatives to m6a.16xlarge

Option	Price vs m6a.16xlarge	Why look at it
m6i.16xlarge Compare →	+11%+$0.307/hr Linux on-demand, us-east-1	Intel (x86_64), same vCPU and RAM
m6g.16xlarge Compare →	-11%-$0.301/hr Linux on-demand, us-east-1	Graviton (arm64), same vCPU and RAM

On Google Cloud

The nearest Google Cloud machines to m6a.16xlarge by vCPU and memory, at On-demand Linux rates in Northern Virginia (us-east-1 ↔ us-east4).

Machine	Size	On-demand Linux	vs m6a.16xlarge
m6a.16xlargeThis page · AWS, us-east-1	64 vCPU · 256 GiB	$2.7648/hr	—
n4d-standard-64same 64 vCPU and 256 GiB; AMD on both	64 vCPU · 256 GiB	$2.7104/hr	2.0% less
n2d-standard-64same 64 vCPU and 256 GiB; AMD on both	64 vCPU · 256 GiB	$3.04512/hr	10% more
n4-standard-64same 64 vCPU and 256 GiB; AMD vs Intel	64 vCPU · 256 GiB	$2.9024/hr	5.0% more

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

ProcessorAMD EPYC 7R13 Processor

Architecturex86_64 (x86_64)

vCPUs / Threads64 vCPUs

Physical Cores32

Clock Speed3.6 GHz

Intel AVX / AVX2No

Intel Turbo BoostNo

Bare MetalNo (Virtualized)

Performance & Benchmarks

CoreMark Score1,416,948

CoreMark / vCPU22,139.8 / core

FFmpeg Transcoding227 FPS

CoreMark per Dollar797,113 score / $

Cost per vCPU-hr$0.0278

Cost per GB-hr$0.0069

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 Performance25 Gbps

Baseline Bandwidth25 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 Throughput2500 MB/s

EBS Max Throughput2500 MB/s

EBS Baseline IOPS80,000

EBS Max / Burst IOPS80,000

Dedicated EBS Throughput13333 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

$1.7776/ hr

Asia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)

Highest Price Region

$4.4064/ hr

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

Global Fleet Average

$3.0680/ hr

Across all active regions

Regional Coverage

16regions

Available worldwide

Linux — Available in all 16 regions
Region	On-Demand Price	% vs On-Demand Rate
ap-south-2 Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Lowest	$1.7776
ap-south-1 Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Lowest	$1.7776
ap-southeast-1 Asia Pacific (Singapore)	$3.4560
ap-southeast-2 Asia Pacific (Sydney)	$3.4560
ap-northeast-1 Asia Pacific (Tokyo)	$3.5712
ca-central-1 Canada (Central)	$3.0816
eu-central-1 EU (Frankfurt)	$3.3120
eu-west-1 EU (Ireland)	$3.0816
eu-west-2 EU (London)	$3.1968
eu-south-1 EU (Milan)	$3.2256
eu-west-3 EU (Paris)	$3.2256
sa-east-1 South America (Sao Paulo) Highest	$4.4064
us-east-1 US East (N. Virginia)	$2.7648
us-east-2 US East (Ohio)	$2.7648
us-west-1 US West (N. California)	$3.2256
us-west-2 US West (Oregon)	$2.7648

Windows — Available in all 16 regions
Region	On-Demand Price	% vs On-Demand Rate
ap-south-2 Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Lowest	$4.7216
ap-south-1 Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Lowest	$4.7216
ap-southeast-1 Asia Pacific (Singapore)	$6.4000
ap-southeast-2 Asia Pacific (Sydney)	$6.4000
ap-northeast-1 Asia Pacific (Tokyo)	$6.5152
ca-central-1 Canada (Central)	$6.0256
eu-central-1 EU (Frankfurt)	$6.2560
eu-west-1 EU (Ireland)	$6.0256
eu-west-2 EU (London)	$6.1408
eu-south-1 EU (Milan)	$6.1696
eu-west-3 EU (Paris)	$6.1696
sa-east-1 South America (Sao Paulo) Highest	$7.3504
us-east-1 US East (N. Virginia)	$5.7088
us-east-2 US East (Ohio)	$5.7088
us-west-1 US West (N. California)	$6.1696
us-west-2 US West (Oregon)	$5.7088

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 Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) (ap-south-2), the 3-year Compute Savings Plan rate (No Upfront) for m6a.16xlarge on Linux is 50% of the on-demand rate, so the instance has to run at least 50% 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.