Compare m5.large vs m5.xlarge

An in-depth comparison of AWS EC2 instances m5.large vs m5.xlarge, providing detailed insights into pricing, configurations, and performance.

m5.large

The m5.large machine type has 2 vCPUs and 8 GB of memory. Pricing for this instance starts at $0.10 per hour and $70.08 monthly in region us-east-1.

Machine Configuration (m5.large)

Region
Currency
Pricing
Monthly Cost

$70.0800

Hourly Cost

$0.0960

Reserved - 1 year

$41.1667 ($0.0564 per hour)

Reserved - 3 year

$26.3611 ($0.0361 per hour)

Compute
Value
vCPUs
2
Memory (Gib)
8.00
Memory per vCPU (Gib)
4
Clock Speed (GHz)
3.1
CPU Architecture
x86_64
Networking
Value
Network Performance
Up to 10 Gigabit
IPv6
true
Storage
Value
Disk Space (GiB)
N/A
EBS Optimized
True
Max Bandwidth (Mbps) on EBS
4750
Max Throughput (MB/s) on EBS
593.75
Max I/O Operations/second (IOPS)
18750

m5.xlarge

The m5.xlarge machine type has 4 vCPUs and 16 GB of memory. Pricing for this instance starts at $0.19 per hour and $140.16 monthly in region us-east-1.

Machine Configuration (m5.xlarge)

Region
Currency
Pricing
Monthly Cost

$140.1600

Hourly Cost

$0.1920

Reserved - 1 year

$82.4167 ($0.1129 per hour)

Reserved - 3 year

$52.6944 ($0.0722 per hour)

Compute
Value
vCPUs
4
Memory (Gib)
16.00
Memory per vCPU (Gib)
4
Clock Speed (GHz)
3.1
CPU Architecture
x86_64
Networking
Value
Network Performance
Up to 10 Gigabit
IPv6
true
Storage
Value
Disk Space (GiB)
N/A
EBS Optimized
True
Max Bandwidth (Mbps) on EBS
4750
Max Throughput (MB/s) on EBS
593.75
Max I/O Operations/second (IOPS)
18750