m5n.12xlarge

m5n.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 $2.856 per hour on demand ($2,084.88 per month) for Linux; a 1-year reserved instance with no upfront costs $1.799 per hour, 37% less. Spot capacity is about $0.8339 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	$2.856	$0.8339	$1.799	$1.101	$2.084	$1.265
US East (Ohio) us-east-2	$2.856	$0.7219	$1.799	$1.101	$2.084	$1.265
US West (Oregon) us-west-2	$2.856	$0.8326	$1.799	$1.101	$2.084	$1.265
EU (Ireland) eu-west-1	$3.192	$1.21	$2.011	$1.379	$2.577	$1.593
EU (Frankfurt) eu-central-1	$3.384	$1.08	$2.132	$1.462	$2.75	$1.787
Asia Pacific (Singapore) ap-southeast-1	$3.504	$1.133	$2.208	$1.374	$2.634	$1.578
AWS GovCloud (US-East) us-gov-east-1	$3.576	–	$2.253	$1.425	$2.779	$1.638
AWS GovCloud (US-West) us-gov-west-1	$3.576	–	$2.253	$1.425	$2.779	$1.638
Asia Pacific (Tokyo) ap-northeast-1	$3.672	$0.7252	$2.313	$1.586	$2.953	$1.876

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	$2.856	$1.799	$1.101
Ubuntu Pro	$2.94	–	–
SUSE	$2.981	$1.859	$1.155
RHEL	$3.374	$2.318	$1.62
Linux SQL Web	$3.667	$2.61	$1.912
RHEL HA	$4.046	$2.99	$2.292
RHEL SQL Web	$4.186	–	–
Windows	$5.064	$4.007	$3.309
Windows SQL Web	$5.875	$4.818	$4.12
Linux SQL Std	$8.616	$7.559	$6.861
RHEL SQL Std	$9.134	–	–
RHEL HA SQL Std	$9.806	–	–
Windows SQL Std	$10.824	$9.767	$9.069
Linux SQL Ent	$20.856	$19.799	$19.101
RHEL SQL Ent	$21.374	–	–
RHEL HA SQL Ent	$22.046	–	–
Windows SQL Ent	$23.064	$22.007	$21.309

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	EBS only
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	27

Instance details	Value
Instance type	m5n.12xlarge
Family	m5n
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 m5n sizes

Size	vCPUs	Memory (GiB)	On-demand /hr
m5n.large	2	8	$0.119
m5n.xlarge	4	16	$0.238
m5n.2xlarge	8	32	$0.476
m5n.4xlarge	16	64	$0.952
m5n.8xlarge	32	128	$1.904
m5n.12xlarge	48	192	$2.856
m5n.16xlarge	64	256	$3.808
m5n.24xlarge	96	384	$5.712
m5n.metal	96	384	$5.712

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