m5ad.large

m5ad.large is an AWS EC2 instance with 2 vCPUs, 8 GiB memory (AMD EPYC 7571). In US East (N. Virginia) it costs $0.103 per hour on demand ($75.19 per month) for Linux; a 1-year reserved instance with no upfront costs $0.065 per hour, 37% less. Spot capacity is about $0.0381 per hour. It is sold in 16 regions; the cheapest is Asia Pacific (Mumbai) at $0.067 per hour.

Prices by region

USD per hour, Linux. Reserved prices are no upfront, standard. Cheapest on-demand first.

RegionOn-demandSpot1-yr reserved3-yr reserved1-yr savings plan3-yr savings plan
Asia Pacific (Mumbai) ap-south-1$0.067$0.0268$0.042$0.029$0.05$0.034
US East (N. Virginia) us-east-1$0.103$0.0381$0.065$0.044$0.076$0.052
US East (Ohio) us-east-2$0.103$0.0309$0.065$0.044$0.076$0.052
US West (Oregon) us-west-2$0.103$0.042$0.065$0.044$0.076$0.052
Canada (Central) ca-central-1$0.115$0.0443$0.072$0.05$0.085$0.057
EU (Ireland) eu-west-1$0.115$0.056$0.072$0.05$0.093$0.066
EU (London) eu-west-2$0.12$0.0405$0.076$0.052$0.097$0.07
EU (Paris) eu-west-3$0.121$0.0493$0.076$0.052$0.098$0.069
US West (N. California) us-west-1$0.122$0.0394$0.077$0.053$0.104$0.07
EU (Frankfurt) eu-central-1$0.125$0.0478$0.079$0.054$0.102$0.075
Asia Pacific (Seoul) ap-northeast-2$0.127$0.0395$0.079$0.055$0.091$0.067
Asia Pacific (Singapore) ap-southeast-1$0.129$0.0565$0.081$0.056$0.096$0.065
Asia Pacific (Sydney) ap-southeast-2$0.13$0.0427$0.082$0.056$0.103$0.073
AWS GovCloud (US-West) us-gov-west-1$0.131–$0.083$0.057$0.103$0.068
Asia Pacific (Tokyo) ap-northeast-1$0.134$0.0493$0.084$0.058$0.107$0.078
South America (Sao Paulo) sa-east-1$0.165$0.0352$0.1$0.071$0.115$0.086
Reserved and Savings PlansSpot prices by regionWindows prices by regionAzure equivalents

Prices by operating system in US East (N. Virginia)

Operating systemOn-demand /hr1-yr reserved /hr3-yr reserved /hr
Linux$0.103$0.065$0.044
Ubuntu Pro$0.107––
RHEL$0.132$0.094$0.073
SUSE$0.159$0.09$0.066
RHEL HA$0.167$0.129$0.108
Linux SQL Web$0.171$0.132$0.112
Windows$0.195$0.157$0.136
RHEL SQL Web$0.199––
Windows SQL Web$0.263$0.224$0.204
Linux SQL Std$0.583$0.545$0.524
RHEL SQL Std$0.612––
RHEL HA SQL Std$0.647––
Windows SQL Std$0.675$0.637$0.616

Specs

ComputeValue
vCPUs2
Physical cores1
Threads per core2
Architecturex86_64
ProcessorAMD EPYC 7571
CPU makerAMD
Clock speed2.5 GHz
Sustained clock2.2 GHz
Processor featuresAVX; AVX2; AMD Turbo
BurstableNo
MemoryValue
Memory (GiB)8
NetworkingValue
NetworkUp to 10 Gbps
Network baseline0.75 Gbps
Network peak10 Gbps
Enhanced networkingYes (ENA)
EFANo
IPv6Yes
Max network interfaces3
IPv4 addresses per interface10
StorageValue
Storage1 x 75 NVMe SSD
Local disks1 × 75 GB SSD
EBS optimizedYes
EBS over NVMeRequired
EBS throughputUp to 2120 Mbps
EBS baseline bandwidth650 Mbps
EBS max bandwidth2,880 Mbps
EBS baseline throughput81.25 MB/s
EBS max throughput360 MB/s
EBS baseline IOPS3,600
EBS max IOPS16,000
Max EBS volumes26
Instance detailsValue
Instance typem5ad.large
Familym5ad
CategoryGeneral purpose
Current generationYes
Normalization factor4
Bare metalNo
HypervisorNitro
Placement groupsCluster, Partition, Spread
HibernationYes
Nitro EnclavesNo
Boot modesLegacy BIOS, UEFI

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Other m5ad sizes

SizevCPUsMemory (GiB)On-demand /hr
m5ad.large28$0.103
m5ad.xlarge416$0.206
m5ad.2xlarge832$0.412
m5ad.4xlarge1664$0.824
m5ad.8xlarge32128$1.648
m5ad.12xlarge48192$2.472
m5ad.16xlarge64256$3.296
m5ad.24xlarge96384$4.944

Prices updated 2026-11-12 from AWS public price lists. Compare all AWS EC2 instances.