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m5ad.16xlarge is 9% cheaper than m5d.16xlarge on demand in US East (N. Virginia), saving $233.60 a month.

At a glancem5ad.16xlargem5d.16xlarge
On-demand$3.296/hr9% less$3.616/hr
Lowest rate$0.9146/hrSpot, can be interrupted$0.8855/hr3% lessSpot, can be interrupted
Size64 vCPUs, 256 GiB64 vCPUs, 256 GiB
ProcessorAMD EPYC 7571Intel Xeon Platinum 8175
Architecturex86_64x86_64

Prices in US East (N. Virginia)

“Off” is the discount against each type’s own on-demand price. Linux, USD per hour.

Optionm5ad.16xlargem5d.16xlargem5d.16xlarge vs m5ad.16xlarge
On-demandPay by the hour$3.296$3.616▲ 10%
SpotCan be interrupted72% off$0.914676% off$0.8855▼ 3%
1-yr reservedNo upfront37% off$2.07637% off$2.278▲ 10%
3-yr reservedNo upfront57% off$1.42457% off$1.562▲ 10%
1-yr savings planHourly commitment26% off$2.42327% off$2.648▲ 9%
3-yr savings planHourly commitment50% off$1.66250% off$1.82▲ 10%

Key differences

The biggest lead each one has.

Where m5ad.16xlarge leads
On-demand price$3.296 vs $3.616 per hour
9% cheaper
Where m5d.16xlarge leads
Network baseline20 Gbps vs 12 Gbps
67% higher
EBS baseline IOPS60,000 vs 40,000
50% higher
Clock speed3.1 GHz vs 2.5 GHz
24% higher

Specs

17 of 42 specs differ. Those are in bold.

Compute6 of 11 differm5ad.16xlargem5d.16xlarge
vCPUs6464
Physical cores3232
Threads per core22
Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorAMD EPYC 7571Intel Xeon Platinum 8175
CPU makerAMDIntel
Clock speed2.5 GHz3.1 GHz
Sustained clock2.5 GHz3.1 GHz
Processor featuresAVX; AVX2; AMD TurboIntel AVX; Intel AVX2; Intel AVX512; Intel Turbo
BurstableNoNo
ECU–256
MemoryAll 1 matchm5ad.16xlargem5d.16xlarge
Memory (GiB)256256
Networking3 of 8 differm5ad.16xlargem5d.16xlarge
Network12 Gigabit20 Gigabit
Network baseline12 Gbps20 Gbps
Network peak12 Gbps20 Gbps
Enhanced networkingYes (ENA)Yes (ENA)
EFANoNo
IPv6YesYes
Max network interfaces1515
IPv4 addresses per interface5050
Storage7 of 12 differm5ad.16xlargem5d.16xlarge
Storage4 x 600 NVMe SSD4 x 600 NVMe SSD
Local disks4 × 600 GB SSD4 × 600 GB SSD
EBS optimizedYesYes
EBS over NVMeRequiredRequired
EBS throughput7000 Mbps10000 Mbps
EBS baseline bandwidth9,500 Mbps13,600 Mbps
EBS max bandwidth9,500 Mbps13,600 Mbps
EBS baseline throughput1,187.5 MB/s1,700 MB/s
EBS max throughput1,187.5 MB/s1,700 MB/s
EBS baseline IOPS40,00060,000
EBS max IOPS40,00060,000
Max EBS volumes2323
Instance details1 of 10 differm5ad.16xlargem5d.16xlarge
Familym5adm5d
CategoryGeneral purposeGeneral purpose
Current generationYesYes
Normalization factor128128
Bare metalNoNo
HypervisorNitroNitro
Placement groupsCluster, Partition, SpreadCluster, Partition, Spread
HibernationNoNo
Nitro EnclavesYesYes
Boot modesLegacy BIOS, UEFILegacy BIOS, UEFI

On-demand prices by region

Cheapest for m5ad.16xlarge first. Linux, USD per hour.

Regionm5ad.16xlargem5d.16xlargeDifference
Asia Pacific (Mumbai)ap-south-1$2.147$3.904▲ 82%
US East (N. Virginia)Used in summaryus-east-1$3.296$3.616▲ 10%
US East (Ohio)us-east-2$3.296$3.616▲ 10%
US West (Oregon)us-west-2$3.296$3.616▲ 10%
Canada (Central)ca-central-1$3.68$4.032▲ 10%
EU (Ireland)eu-west-1$3.68$4.032▲ 10%
EU (London)eu-west-2$3.84$4.192▲ 9%
EU (Paris)eu-west-3$3.872$4.224▲ 9%
US West (N. California)us-west-1$3.904$4.256▲ 9%
EU (Frankfurt)eu-central-1$4.00$4.352▲ 9%
Asia Pacific (Seoul)ap-northeast-2$4.064$4.448▲ 9%
Asia Pacific (Singapore)ap-southeast-1$4.128$4.512▲ 9%
Asia Pacific (Sydney)ap-southeast-2$4.16$4.544▲ 9%
AWS GovCloud (US-West)us-gov-west-1$4.192$4.576▲ 9%
Asia Pacific (Tokyo)ap-northeast-1$4.288$4.672▲ 9%
South America (Sao Paulo)sa-east-1$5.28$5.76▲ 9%

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AWS EC2 Linux prices in USD. Monthly figures use 730 hours. Prices last updated 12 Nov 2026.