db.m5d.16xlarge

db.m5d.16xlarge is an AWS RDS size with 64 vCPUs, 256 GiB memory (Intel Xeon Platinum 8175). In US East (N. Virginia) it costs $6.705 per hour on demand ($4,894.65 per month) for PostgreSQL, Single-AZ; a 1-year reserved instance with no upfront costs $5.163 per hour, 23% less. It is sold in 26 regions.

Prices by region

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

Region	On-demand	1-yr reserved
US East (N. Virginia) us-east-1	$6.705	$5.163
US East (Ohio) us-east-2	$6.705	$5.163
US West (Oregon) us-west-2	$6.705	$5.163
EU (Stockholm) eu-north-1	$7.04	$5.421
Canada (Central) ca-central-1	$7.386	$5.687
EU (Ireland) eu-west-1	$7.423	$5.716
US West (N. California) us-west-1	$7.714	$5.94
AWS GovCloud (US-East) us-gov-east-1	$7.721	$5.53
AWS GovCloud (US-West) us-gov-west-1	$7.721	$5.53
EU (Paris) eu-west-3	$7.769	$5.982
EU (London) eu-west-2	$7.78	$5.99
EU (Milan) eu-south-1	$7.807	$6.011
EU (Frankfurt) eu-central-1	$8.023	$6.178
Middle East (UAE) me-central-1	$8.18	$6.298
Middle East (Bahrain) me-south-1	$8.18	$6.298
South America (Sao Paulo) sa-east-1	$8.772	$6.754
Africa (Cape Town) af-south-1	$8.844	$6.81
Asia Pacific (Singapore) ap-southeast-1	$9.287	$7.151
Asia Pacific (Jakarta) ap-southeast-3	$9.287	$7.151
Asia Pacific (Tokyo) ap-northeast-1	$9.306	$7.166
Asia Pacific (Seoul) ap-northeast-2	$9.311	$7.169
Asia Pacific (Sydney) ap-southeast-2	$9.353	$7.202
Asia Pacific (Osaka) ap-northeast-3	$9.758	$7.514
Asia Pacific (Mumbai) ap-south-1	$9.779	$7.53
Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) ap-east-1	$10.209	$7.861
Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) ap-south-2	$38.56	–

Reserved and Savings Plans

Prices by engine and deployment in US East (N. Virginia)

Option	On-demand /hr	1-yr reserved /hr	3-yr reserved /hr
PostgreSQL · Single-AZ	$6.705	$5.163	–
PostgreSQL · Multi-AZ	$13.409	$10.325	–
PostgreSQL · Multi-AZ (readable standbys)	$18.72	–	–
Oracle Enterprise BYOL · Single-AZ	$6.441	$4.608	–
MariaDB · Single-AZ	$6.705	$5.163	–
MySQL · Single-AZ	$6.705	$5.163	–
Oracle Enterprise BYOL · Multi-AZ	$12.881	$9.216	–
MariaDB · Multi-AZ	$13.409	$10.325	–
MySQL · Multi-AZ	$13.409	$10.325	–
MySQL · Multi-AZ (readable standbys)	$18.72	–	–
SQL Server Standard · Single-AZ	$20.648	$16.26	–
SQL Server Enterprise · Single-AZ	$38.20	$37.054	–
SQL Server Standard · Multi-AZ	$41.296	$32.521	–
SQL Server Enterprise · Multi-AZ	$58.255	$56.507	–

Specs

Compute	Value
vCPUs	64
Physical cores	32
Threads per core	2
Architecture	x86_64
Processor	Intel Xeon Platinum 8175
CPU maker	Intel
Sustained clock	3.1 GHz
Burstable	No

Memory	Value
Memory (GiB)	256

Networking	Value
Network	20 Gbps
Network baseline	20 Gbps
Network peak	20 Gbps

Storage	Value
Storage	4 x 600 NVMe SSD
Local disks	4 × 600 GB SSD
EBS baseline bandwidth	13,600 Mbps
EBS max bandwidth	13,600 Mbps
EBS baseline throughput	1,700 MB/s
EBS max throughput	1,700 MB/s
EBS baseline IOPS	60,000
EBS max IOPS	60,000

Instance details	Value
Instance type	db.m5d.16xlarge
Family	m5d
Category	General purpose
Current generation	Yes
Normalization factor	128

Other	Value
Hardware Basis	m5d.16xlarge

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Other m5d sizes

Size	vCPUs	Memory (GiB)	On-demand /hr
db.m5d.large	2	8	$0.21
db.m5d.xlarge	4	16	$0.419
db.m5d.2xlarge	8	32	$0.838
db.m5d.4xlarge	16	64	$1.676
db.m5d.8xlarge	32	128	$3.352
db.m5d.12xlarge	48	192	$5.028
db.m5d.16xlarge	64	256	$6.705
db.m5d.24xlarge	96	384	$10.057

Prices updated 2026-11-12 from AWS public price lists. Compare all AWS RDS sizes.