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m5a.16xlarge

The m5a.16xlarge instance is in the General purpose family with 64 vCPUs, 256 GiB of memory and 12 Gibps of bandwidth starting at $2.752 per hour.

Pricing

$2.752

On Demand

$1.014

Spot

$1.734

1-Year Reserved

$1.189

3-Year Reserved

Family Sizes

SizevCPUsMemory (GiB)
m5a.large28
m5a.xlarge416
m5a.2xlarge832
m5a.4xlarge1664
m5a.8xlarge32128
m5a.12xlarge48192
m5a.16xlarge64256
m5a.24xlarge96384

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Instance Variants

Variant
m5
m5a
m5ad
m5d
m5dn
m5n
m5zn

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Instance Details

ComputeValue
vCPUs64
Memory (GiB)256
Memory per vCPU (GiB)4
Physical ProcessorAMD EPYC 7571
Clock Speed (GHz)2.5 GHz
CPU Architecturex86_64
GPU
0
GPU Architecture
none
Video Memory (GiB)0
GPU Compute Capability ?0
FPGA
0
NetworkingValue
Network Performance (Gibps)12
Enhanced Networking
true
IPv6
true
Placement Group ?
StorageValue
EBS Optimized
true
Max Bandwidth (Mbps) on EBS9500
Max Throughput (MB/s) on EBS1187.5
Max I/O operations/second IOPS40000
Baseline Bandwidth (Mbps) on EBS9500
Baseline Throughput (MB/s) on EBS1187.5
Baseline I/O operations/second IOPS40000
Devices0
Swap Partition
false
NVME Drive ?
false
Disk Space (GiB)0
SSD
false
Initialize Storage
false
AmazonValue
Generation
current
Instance Typem5a.16xlarge
FamilyGeneral purpose
NameM5A 16xlarge Extra Large
Elastic Map Reduce EMR
true
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