m5dn.12xlarge

m5dn.12xlarge is an AWS EC2 instance with 48 vCPUs, 192 GiB memory (Intel Xeon Platinum 8259 (Cascade Lake)). In US East (N. Virginia) it costs $3.264 per hour on demand ($2,382.72 per month) for Linux; a 1-year reserved instance with no upfront costs $2.056 per hour, 37% less. Spot capacity is about $0.9127 per hour. It is sold in 9 regions.

Prices by region

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

Region	On-demand	Spot	1-yr reserved	3-yr reserved	1-yr savings plan	3-yr savings plan
US East (N. Virginia) us-east-1	$3.264	$0.9127	$2.056	$1.269	$2.385	$1.459
US East (Ohio) us-east-2	$3.264	$0.88	$2.056	$1.269	$2.385	$1.459
US West (Oregon) us-west-2	$3.264	$0.9585	$2.056	$1.269	$2.385	$1.459
EU (Ireland) eu-west-1	$3.648	$1.215	$2.298	$1.576	$2.926	$1.844
EU (Frankfurt) eu-central-1	$3.888	$1.242	$2.449	$1.68	$3.156	$2.083
Asia Pacific (Singapore) ap-southeast-1	$4.008	$1.066	$2.525	$1.58	$3.013	$1.814
AWS GovCloud (US-East) us-gov-east-1	$4.104	–	$2.586	$1.658	$3.202	$1.906
AWS GovCloud (US-West) us-gov-west-1	$4.104	–	$2.586	$1.658	$3.202	$1.906
Asia Pacific (Tokyo) ap-northeast-1	$4.20	$0.8264	$2.646	$1.814	$3.387	$2.173

Reserved and Savings Plans Spot prices by region Windows prices by region Azure equivalents

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

Operating system	On-demand /hr	1-yr reserved /hr	3-yr reserved /hr
Linux	$3.264	$2.056	$1.269
Ubuntu Pro	$3.348	–	–
RHEL	$3.782	$2.575	$1.787
Linux SQL Web	$4.075	$2.868	$2.08
RHEL HA	$4.454	$3.247	$2.459
RHEL SQL Web	$4.594	–	–
Windows	$5.472	$4.264	$3.477
Windows SQL Web	$6.283	$5.076	$4.288
Linux SQL Std	$9.024	$7.816	$7.029
RHEL SQL Std	$9.542	–	–
RHEL HA SQL Std	$10.214	–	–
Windows SQL Std	$11.232	$10.024	$9.237
Linux SQL Ent	$21.264	$20.056	$19.269
RHEL SQL Ent	$21.782	–	–
RHEL HA SQL Ent	$22.454	–	–
Windows SQL Ent	$23.472	$22.264	$21.477

Specs

Compute	Value
vCPUs	48
Physical cores	24
Threads per core	2
Architecture	x86_64
Processor	Intel Xeon Platinum 8259 (Cascade Lake)
CPU maker	Intel
Clock speed	3.1 GHz
Sustained clock	3.1 GHz
Burstable	No

Memory	Value
Memory (GiB)	192

Networking	Value
Network	50 Gbps
Network baseline	50 Gbps
Network peak	50 Gbps
Enhanced networking	Yes (ENA)
EFA	No
IPv6	Yes
Max network interfaces	8
IPv4 addresses per interface	30

Storage	Value
Storage	2 x 900 GB NVMe SSD
Local disks	2 × 900 GB SSD
EBS optimized	Yes
EBS over NVMe	Required
EBS throughput	7000 Mbps
EBS baseline bandwidth	9,500 Mbps
EBS max bandwidth	9,500 Mbps
EBS baseline throughput	1,187.5 MB/s
EBS max throughput	1,187.5 MB/s
EBS baseline IOPS	40,000
EBS max IOPS	40,000
Max EBS volumes	25

Instance details	Value
Instance type	m5dn.12xlarge
Family	m5dn
Category	General purpose
Current generation	Yes
Normalization factor	96
Bare metal	No
Hypervisor	Nitro
Placement groups	Cluster, Partition, Spread
Hibernation	No
Nitro Enclaves	Yes
Boot modes	Legacy BIOS, UEFI

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Other m5dn sizes

Size	vCPUs	Memory (GiB)	On-demand /hr
m5dn.large	2	8	$0.136
m5dn.xlarge	4	16	$0.272
m5dn.2xlarge	8	32	$0.544
m5dn.4xlarge	16	64	$1.088
m5dn.8xlarge	32	128	$2.176
m5dn.12xlarge	48	192	$3.264
m5dn.16xlarge	64	256	$4.352
m5dn.24xlarge	96	384	$6.528
m5dn.metal	96	384	$6.528

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