m5dn.metalvsm6idn.metal

m5dn.metal is 36% cheaper than m6idn.metal on demand in US East (N. Virginia), saving $2,668.66 a month. Per vCPU, m5dn.metal costs 15% less.

At a glancem5dn.metalm6idn.metal
On-demand$6.528/hr36% less$10.184/hr
Lowest rate$1.669/hrSpot, can be interrupted$1.018/hr39% lessSpot, can be interrupted
Size96 vCPUs, 384 GiB128 vCPUs, 512 GiB
ProcessorIntel Xeon Platinum 8259 (Cascade Lake)Intel Xeon 8375C (Ice Lake)
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.

Optionm5dn.metalm6idn.metalm6idn.metal vs m5dn.metal
On-demandPay by the hour$6.528$10.184▲ 56%
SpotCan be interrupted74% off$1.66990% off$1.018▼ 39%
1-yr reservedNo upfront37% off$4.11337% off$6.416▲ 56%
3-yr reservedNo upfront61% off$2.53861% off$3.959▲ 56%
1-yr savings planHourly commitment27% off$4.77127% off$7.442▲ 56%
3-yr savings planHourly commitment55% off$2.91955% off$4.552▲ 56%

Key differences

The biggest lead each one has.

Where m5dn.metal leads
On-demand price$6.528 vs $10.184 per hour
36% cheaper
Where m6idn.metal leads
EBS baseline bandwidth100,000 Mbps vs 19,000 Mbps
5.3× higher
Network baseline400 Gbps vs 100 Gbps
4× higher
vCPUs128 vs 96
33% higher
Memory (GiB)512 vs 384
33% higher

Specs

23 of 41 specs differ. Those are in bold.

Compute6 of 10 differm5dn.metalm6idn.metal
vCPUs96128
Physical cores4864
Threads per core22
Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon Platinum 8259 (Cascade Lake)Intel Xeon 8375C (Ice Lake)
CPU makerIntelIntel
Clock speed3.1 GHz3.5 GHz
Sustained clock3.1 GHz3.5 GHz
Processor features–Intel AVX; Intel AVX2; Intel AVX512; Intel Turbo
BurstableNoNo
Memory1 of 1 differm5dn.metalm6idn.metal
Memory (GiB)384512
Networking5 of 9 differm5dn.metalm6idn.metal
Network100 Gigabit200000 Megabit
Network baseline100 Gbps400 Gbps
Network peak100 Gbps400 Gbps
Enhanced networkingYes (ENA)Yes (ENA)
EFAYesYes
IPv6YesYes
Max network interfaces1516
IPv4 addresses per interface5050
Network cards–2
Storage9 of 12 differm5dn.metalm6idn.metal
Storage4 x 900 NVMe SSD4 x 1900 NVMe SSD
Local disks4 × 900 GB SSD4 × 1,900 GB SSD
EBS optimizedYesYes
EBS over NVMeRequiredRequired
EBS throughput14000 Mbps100000 Mbps
EBS baseline bandwidth19,000 Mbps100,000 Mbps
EBS max bandwidth19,000 Mbps100,000 Mbps
EBS baseline throughput2,375 MB/s12,500 MB/s
EBS max throughput2,375 MB/s12,500 MB/s
EBS baseline IOPS80,000400,000
EBS max IOPS80,000400,000
Max EBS volumes3131
Instance details2 of 9 differm5dn.metalm6idn.metal
Familym5dnm6idn
CategoryGeneral purposeGeneral purpose
Current generationYesYes
Normalization factor192256
Bare metalYesYes
Placement groupsCluster, Partition, SpreadCluster, Partition, Spread
HibernationNoNo
Nitro EnclavesNoNo
Boot modesLegacy BIOSLegacy BIOS

On-demand prices by region

Cheapest for m5dn.metal first. Linux, USD per hour.

Regionm5dn.metalm6idn.metalDifference
US East (N. Virginia)Used in summaryus-east-1$6.528$10.184▲ 56%
US East (Ohio)us-east-2$6.528$10.184▲ 56%
US West (Oregon)us-west-2$6.528$10.184▲ 56%
EU (Ireland)eu-west-1$7.296$11.382▲ 56%
EU (Frankfurt)eu-central-1$7.776$12.131▲ 56%
Asia Pacific (Singapore)ap-southeast-1$8.016$12.505▲ 56%
AWS GovCloud (US-West)us-gov-west-1$8.208$12.805▲ 56%
Asia Pacific (Tokyo)ap-northeast-1$8.40$13.104▲ 56%

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