db.m5d.4xlarge

db.m5d.4xlarge is an AWS RDS size with 16 vCPUs, 64 GiB memory. In US East (N. Virginia) it costs $1.676 per hour on demand ($1,223.48 per month) for PostgreSQL, Single-AZ; a 1-year reserved instance with no upfront costs $1.291 per hour, 23% less. It is sold in 27 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	$1.676	$1.291
US East (Ohio) us-east-2	$1.676	$1.291
US West (Oregon) us-west-2	$1.676	$1.291
EU (Stockholm) eu-north-1	$1.76	$1.355
Canada (Central) ca-central-1	$1.846	$1.422
EU (Ireland) eu-west-1	$1.856	$1.429
US West (N. California) us-west-1	$1.929	$1.485
AWS GovCloud (US-East) us-gov-east-1	$1.93	$1.382
AWS GovCloud (US-West) us-gov-west-1	$1.93	$1.382
EU (Paris) eu-west-3	$1.942	$1.496
EU (London) eu-west-2	$1.945	$1.498
EU (Milan) eu-south-1	$1.952	$1.503
EU (Frankfurt) eu-central-1	$2.006	$1.544
Middle East (UAE) me-central-1	$2.045	$1.575
Middle East (Bahrain) me-south-1	$2.045	$1.575
South America (Sao Paulo) sa-east-1	$2.193	$1.689
Africa (Cape Town) af-south-1	$2.211	$1.702
Asia Pacific (Singapore) ap-southeast-1	$2.322	$1.788
Asia Pacific (Jakarta) ap-southeast-3	$2.322	$1.788
Asia Pacific (Tokyo) ap-northeast-1	$2.327	$1.792
Asia Pacific (Seoul) ap-northeast-2	$2.328	$1.792
Asia Pacific (Sydney) ap-southeast-2	$2.338	$1.80
Asia Pacific (Osaka) ap-northeast-3	$2.44	$1.879
Asia Pacific (Mumbai) ap-south-1	$2.445	$1.883
Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) ap-east-1	$2.552	$1.965
Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) ap-south-2	$9.64	–
Israel (Tel Aviv) il-central-1	–	–

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	$1.676	$1.291	–
PostgreSQL · Multi-AZ	$3.352	$2.581	–
PostgreSQL · Multi-AZ (readable standbys)	$4.68	–	–
Oracle Enterprise BYOL · Single-AZ	$1.61	$1.152	–
Oracle Standard Two BYOL · Single-AZ	$1.61	$1.152	–
MariaDB · Single-AZ	$1.676	$1.291	–
MySQL · Single-AZ	$1.676	$1.291	–
SQL Server Web · Single-AZ	$2.388	$1.629	–
Oracle Enterprise BYOL · Multi-AZ	$3.22	$2.304	–
Oracle Standard Two BYOL · Multi-AZ	$3.22	$2.304	–
MariaDB · Multi-AZ	$3.352	$2.581	–
MySQL · Multi-AZ	$3.352	$2.581	–
SQL Server Web · Multi-AZ	$4.506	–	–
MySQL · Multi-AZ (readable standbys)	$4.68	–	–
SQL Server Standard · Single-AZ	$5.162	$4.065	–
SQL Server Enterprise · Single-AZ	$9.55	$9.264	–
SQL Server Standard · Multi-AZ	$10.324	$8.13	–
SQL Server Enterprise · Multi-AZ	$14.564	$14.127	–

Specs

Compute	Value
vCPUs	16
Physical cores	8
Threads per core	2
CPU maker	Intel
Sustained clock	3.1 GHz
Burstable	No

Memory	Value
Memory (GiB)	64

Networking	Value
Network baseline	5 Gbps
Network peak	10 Gbps

Storage	Value
Local disks	2 × 300 GB SSD
EBS baseline bandwidth	4,750 Mbps
EBS max bandwidth	4,750 Mbps
EBS baseline throughput	593.75 MB/s
EBS max throughput	593.75 MB/s
EBS baseline IOPS	18,750
EBS max IOPS	18,750

Instance details	Value
Instance type	db.m5d.4xlarge
Family	m5d
Normalization factor	32

Other	Value
Hardware Basis	m5d.4xlarge

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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.