Benchmarks for m6a.large (AWS)

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

EC2 Instance family: m6a

CPU Type: 3rd generation AMD EPYC processors (code name Milan) with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.6 GHz. Specific Features: General purpose instance type built on the AWS Nitro System, featuring always-on memory encryption with AMD Transparent Single Key Memory Encryption (TSME), up to 50 Gbps network bandwidth, and up to 40 Gbps dedicated bandwidth to Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS). They are SAP-Certified. Date of Release: November 29, 2021.

Results

This benchmark has been generated using the m6a.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 %
`m6a`	`m6a.large`	AMD EPYC 7R13 Processor (x86_64)	2583	$0.0864	$0.0379	54%	10-15%

🇺🇸 Oregon (us-west-2)

Family	Instance	Processor	CPU speed	On-demand	Spot (avg)	Savings	Interrupt %
`m6a`	`m6a.large`	AMD EPYC 7R13 Processor (x86_64)	2583	$0.0864	$0.0382	46%	5-10%

🇮🇪 Ireland (eu-west-1)

Family	Instance	Processor	CPU speed	On-demand	Spot (avg)	Savings	Interrupt %
`m6a`	`m6a.large`	AMD EPYC 7R13 Processor (x86_64)	2583	$0.0963	$0.0563	33%	5-10%

🇩🇪 Frankfurt (eu-central-1)

Family	Instance	Processor	CPU speed	On-demand	Spot (avg)	Savings	Interrupt %
`m6a`	`m6a.large`	AMD EPYC 7R13 Processor (x86_64)	2583	$0.1035	$0.0383	58%	15-20%

About those benchmarks

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

Last updated:March 24, 2026