m5a.large

AMD EPYC 7000 series processors (AMD EPYC 7571) 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

available for self-hosted runners on RunsOn

cpu speed · passmark single-thread

1,400pts

AMD EPYC 7571 (x86_64)
averaged over many days · higher is faster

vcpus

physical threads

memory

7.6 GiB

ram

clock speed

2.5 GHz

max frequency

architecture

x86_64

EC2 instance family: m5a

What the family is built for, the silicon underneath, and how to ask RunsOn for it.

m5a general purpose

cpu type

AMD EPYC 7571 — AMD EPYC 7000 series processors (AMD EPYC 7571)

architecture

x86_64 · x86_64

highlights

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

released

November 2018

.github/workflows/ci.yml yaml

jobs:
  build:
    runs-on:
      - runs-on=${{ github.run_id }}
      - family=m5a
      - cpu=2

the label is a query — each line one constraint, resolved at launch. job labels →

Availability & price by region

Spot is the average price RunsOn pays in your own AWS account — no per-minute markup. The bar shows how far under on-demand each region runs; the badge is the observed spot-interruption frequency.

N. Virginia

us-east-1

spot · avg $0.0372/hr

on-demand$0.0860

savings vs on-demand55%

spot interrupt freq 10-15%

Oregon

us-west-2

best spot

spot · avg $0.0347/hr

on-demand$0.0860

savings vs on-demand59%

spot interrupt freq 15-20%

Ireland

eu-west-1

spot · avg $0.0580/hr

on-demand$0.0960

savings vs on-demand31%

spot interrupt freq <5%

Frankfurt

eu-central-1

spot · avg $0.0566/hr

on-demand$0.1040

savings vs on-demand40%

spot interrupt freq <5%

Spot prices are trailing averages per region and move with the market. On-demand is the list reference. Interrupt frequency is AWS's published spot-advisor band for this instance type.

About these benchmarks

CPU is the Passmark single-thread metric, run on a live m5a.large instance and averaged over many days so a single noisy run can't skew the score.

Pricing is normalized to the hourly rate AWS bills, then shown per region. Spot is the trailing average; savings is measured against the same region's on-demand list price.

This instance is launched the exact same way any RunsOn job launches it — ephemeral EC2 in your account, one CloudFormation stack, nothing to babysit.

metricpassmark · single-thread

samples21 runs

regions4 · us-east-1, us-west-2, eu-west-1, eu-central-1

last updatedJuly 1, 2026

Run m5a.large in your own account.

The benchmark runs on the same RunsOn anyone can deploy. One CloudFormation stack, your AWS account, ~10 minutes.

self-host → ← all ec2 instances