m5n.metal

m5n.metal is an AWS EC2 instance with 96 vCPUs, 384 GiB memory (Intel Xeon Platinum 8259 (Cascade Lake)). In US East (N. Virginia) it costs $5.712 per hour on demand ($4,169.76 per month) for Linux; a 1-year reserved instance with no upfront costs $3.599 per hour, 37% less. Spot capacity is about $1.15 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	$5.712	$1.15	$3.599	$2.202	$4.168	$2.529
US East (Ohio) us-east-2	$5.712	$0.5712	$3.599	$2.202	$4.168	$2.529
US West (Oregon) us-west-2	$5.712	$1.371	$3.599	$2.202	$4.168	$2.529
EU (Ireland) eu-west-1	$6.384	–	$4.022	$2.758	$5.155	$3.185
EU (Frankfurt) eu-central-1	$6.768	$2.872	$4.264	$2.924	$5.50	$3.574
Asia Pacific (Singapore) ap-southeast-1	$7.008	$0.7008	$4.415	$2.747	$5.269	$3.156
AWS GovCloud (US-East) us-gov-east-1	$7.152	–	$4.506	$2.85	$5.557	$3.275
AWS GovCloud (US-West) us-gov-west-1	$7.152	–	$4.506	$2.85	$5.557	$3.275
Asia Pacific (Tokyo) ap-northeast-1	$7.344	$1.028	$4.627	$3.173	$5.907	$3.752

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	$5.712	$3.599	$2.202
SUSE	$5.837	$3.659	$2.256
Ubuntu Pro	$5.88	–	–
RHEL	$6.749	$4.635	$3.239
Linux SQL Web	$7.334	$5.221	$3.825
RHEL HA	$8.093	$5.979	$4.583
RHEL SQL Web	$8.371	–	–
Windows	$10.128	$8.015	$6.618
Windows SQL Web	$11.75	$9.637	$8.241
Linux SQL Std	$17.232	$15.119	$13.722
RHEL SQL Std	$18.269	–	–
RHEL HA SQL Std	$19.613	–	–
Windows SQL Std	$21.648	$19.535	$18.138
Linux SQL Ent	$41.712	$39.599	$38.202
RHEL SQL Ent	$42.749	–	–
RHEL HA SQL Ent	$44.093	–	–
Windows SQL Ent	$46.128	$44.015	$42.618

Specs

Compute	Value
vCPUs	96
Physical cores	48
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)	384

Networking	Value
Network	100 Gbps
Network baseline	100 Gbps
Network peak	100 Gbps
Enhanced networking	Yes (ENA)
EFA	Yes
IPv6	Yes
Max network interfaces	15
IPv4 addresses per interface	50

Storage	Value
Storage	EBS only
EBS optimized	Yes
EBS over NVMe	Required
EBS throughput	14000 Mbps
EBS baseline bandwidth	19,000 Mbps
EBS max bandwidth	19,000 Mbps
EBS baseline throughput	2,375 MB/s
EBS max throughput	2,375 MB/s
EBS baseline IOPS	80,000
EBS max IOPS	80,000
Max EBS volumes	31

Instance details	Value
Instance type	m5n.metal
Family	m5n
Category	General purpose
Current generation	Yes
Normalization factor	192
Bare metal	Yes
Placement groups	Cluster, Partition, Spread
Hibernation	No
Nitro Enclaves	No
Boot modes	Legacy BIOS

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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.