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Benchmarks for m5a.large

CPU benchmark for the m5a.large EC2 instance type, as well as the availability, pricing, and spot interruption percentage in various regions.

See the benchmarks for all EC2 instances.

This instance type is available for self-hosted GitHub Actions runners using RunsOn.

EC2 Instance family: m5a

CPU type: AMD EPYC 7000 series processors (AMD EPYC 7571) Specific features: All core turbo clock speed of 2.5 GHz, built on the AWS Nitro System, and offers up to 10% cost savings compared to comparable instances. Date of release: November 2018.

Results

This benchmark has been generated using the m5a.large instance type. Results are averaged over many days (you can mouse over the sparkline to get more details).

🇺🇸 North Virginia (us-east-1)

Family Instance Processor CPU speed On-demand Spot (avg) Savings Interrupt %
m5a m5a.large AMD EPYC 7571 (x86_64)
1399
$0.0860
$0.0367
55% 10-15%

🇺🇸 Oregon (us-west-2)

Family Instance Processor CPU speed On-demand Spot (avg) Savings Interrupt %
m5a m5a.large AMD EPYC 7571 (x86_64)
1399
$0.0860
$0.0319
59% 15-20%

🇮🇪 Ireland (eu-west-1)

Family Instance Processor CPU speed On-demand Spot (avg) Savings Interrupt %
m5a m5a.large AMD EPYC 7571 (x86_64)
1399
$0.0960
$0.0587
31% <5%

🇩🇪 Frankfurt (eu-central-1)

Family Instance Processor CPU speed On-demand Spot (avg) Savings Interrupt %
m5a m5a.large AMD EPYC 7571 (x86_64)
1399
$0.1040
$0.0548
40% <5%

About those benchmarks

Benchmarks are performed using the Passmark benchmarking tool, using the CPU Single Threaded metric.

Last updated:April 7, 2026