Instances›AWS EC2›m5a›m5a.large
Compute
vCPUs2
Memory8 GiB
Mem / vCPU4.00 GiB
ProcessorEPYC 7571
Clock speed2.5 GHz
Architecturex86_64
Storage
TypeEBS only
Bandwidth2,880 Mbps
Throughput360 MB/s
IOPS16,000
Networking
PerformanceUp to 10 Gigabit
Max ENIs3
IPv6Yes
GPUNone
Family sizes
m5a.large2 vCPU · 8 GiB
m5a.xlarge4 vCPU · 16 GiB
m5a.2xlarge8 vCPU · 32 GiB
m5a.4xlarge16 vCPU · 64 GiB
m5a.8xlarge32 vCPU · 128 GiB
m5a.12xlarge48 vCPU · 192 GiB
m5a.16xlarge64 vCPU · 256 GiB
m5a.24xlarge96 vCPU · 384 GiB
m5a.large

The m5a.large is a general-purpose AWS EC2 instance: 2 vCPU and 8 GiB of memory, 4.00 GiB per vCPU. In the name, "m" is the general-purpose line, "5" is the generation, "a" marks AMD processors and "large" is the size within the m5a family. It runs on AMD EPYC 7571 at 2.5 GHz, and AWS introduced it in November 2018. AWS has since shipped m6a, m7a, m8a and m9g; m6a.large is the direct replacement at this size, scoring 40,862 CoreMark/s against this instance's 26,516 — roughly 54% more throughput for the same vCPU count. The nearest Spot node is gp.vs1.large at 4 vCPU and 16 GiB — 2 more vCPU and 8 GiB more memory, about 87% below the US East (N. Virginia) on-demand rate.

Pricing by region
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RegionAWS on-demandAWS Spot1-yr Reserved3-yr ReservedRackspace SpotYou save
US East, N. Virginia$0.086$0.036$0.054$0.037$0.011
$0.075 savings
US Central, Chicagono AWS region$0.011
US Central, Dallasno AWS region$0.021
Hong Kong$0.011
Sydney, Australia$0.108$0.048$0.068$0.047$0.011
$0.097 savings
London, UK$0.100$0.041$0.063$0.043$0.026
$0.074 savings
US West, San Jose$0.101$0.038$0.064$0.044$0.041
$0.060 savings
US Central, Dallas 2no AWS region$0.041
US East, N. Virginia 2$0.086$0.036$0.054$0.037$0.041
$0.045 savings
When to use it
Good for
  • ●Microservices and container fleets
  • ●Development, staging and CI environments
  • ●Small to mid-size relational databases
  • ●Workloads that fit inside 8 GiB of RAM
  • ●Small, steady services that do not need more than 2 vCPU
  • ●Network-heavy services — AWS rates this size at Up to 10 Gigabit
Avoid if
  • ●Starting a new deployment. m6a.large is the newer generation at this size.
  • ●The working set needs more than 8 GiB of RAM
  • ●GPU or FPGA acceleration is needed
  • ●Sustained full-core CPU load. A compute-optimized family costs less per unit of work.
  • ●More than 4.00 GiB of RAM per vCPU is needed — that ratio is fixed for the whole family
  • ●Local NVMe or instance-store disk is a hard requirement
$63/mo on AWS on-demand against $8/mo on Rackspace Spot for the equivalent — market-priced, not list-priced.
  • Spot sells spare capacity at market prices. It is the cheapest compute on the internet.
  • Prices are set by supply and demand. You pay what the market decides.
  • Compute is delivered as fully managed Kubernetes. All infrastructure is taken care of.
  • Egress costs $0.01/GB after the free allowance. AWS charges $0.09/GB.
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