Benchmarks for m5zn.large
CPU benchmark for the m5zn.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: m5zn
CPU type: Custom 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Cascade Lake) with an all-core turbo frequency up to 4.5 GHz.
Specific features: Up to 45% better single-threaded compute performance than M5 instances, 100 Gbps networking, Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) support, up to 19 Gbps throughput to Amazon EBS, and available as a bare metal option (M5zn.metal).
Date of release: December 2020.
Results
This benchmark has been generated using the m5zn.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 % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
m5zn | m5zn.large | Intel(R) Xeon(R) Platinum 8252C CPU @ 3.80GHz (x86_64) | 2519 | $0.1652 | $0.0522 | 66% | 5-10% |
🇺🇸 Oregon (us-west-2)
| Family | Instance | Processor | CPU speed | On-demand | Spot (avg) | Savings | Interrupt % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
m5zn | m5zn.large | Intel(R) Xeon(R) Platinum 8252C CPU @ 3.80GHz (x86_64) | 2519 | $0.1652 | $0.0461 | 69% | >20% |
🇮🇪 Ireland (eu-west-1)
| Family | Instance | Processor | CPU speed | On-demand | Spot (avg) | Savings | Interrupt % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
m5zn | m5zn.large | Intel(R) Xeon(R) Platinum 8252C CPU @ 3.80GHz (x86_64) | 2519 | $0.1841 | $0.0627 | 63% | <5% |
🇩🇪 Frankfurt (eu-central-1)
| Family | Instance | Processor | CPU speed | On-demand | Spot (avg) | Savings | Interrupt % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
m5zn | m5zn.large | Intel(R) Xeon(R) Platinum 8252C CPU @ 3.80GHz (x86_64) | 2519 | $0.1979 | $0.0557 | 70% | 10-15% |
About those benchmarks
Benchmarks are performed using the Passmark benchmarking tool, using the CPU Single Threaded metric.
Last updated:March 24, 2026