M5ZN General Purpose

Balanced compute, memory, and networking for a wide range of workloads.

Name:mGeneral Purposem = General PurposeBalanced compute, memory, and networking resources for a wide variety of standard enterprise workloads and microservices.55th Generation5 = 5th GenerationAWS 5th generation hardware platform with updated CPU/system architecture.zHigh Frequency Turbo CPUz = High Frequency Turbo CPUHigh sustained all-core turbo frequency (up to 4.5 GHz) for single-threaded performance and latency-sensitive workloads.nEnhanced Networkingn = Enhanced NetworkingEnhanced networking capabilities delivering up to 100/200/400 Gbps network bandwidth and Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) support.

Alternatives to m5zn

OptionPrice vs m5znWhy look at it
r7izCompare →
+13%+$0.0417/hr
xlarge, Linux on-demand, us-east-1		Newer generation, 32 GiB RAM instead of 16, same vCPU
z1dCompare →
+13%+$0.0417/hr
xlarge, Linux on-demand, us-east-1		Older generation, 32 GiB RAM instead of 16, same vCPU

Common use cases

  • Web servers
  • Application servers
  • Small-to-medium databases
  • Development environments

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AWS High-Frequency Compute: R7iz vs Z1d vs M5zn

Ultra-high single-core clock speeds up to 4.5 GHz for EDA, financial modeling, and per-core licensing

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Instance types (6)

InstancevCPUMemoryArchitectureFrom (Linux, $/hr)
m5zn.large28 GBx86_64$0.1652
m5zn.xlarge416 GBx86_64$0.3303
m5zn.2xlarge832 GBx86_64$0.6607
m5zn.3xlarge1248 GBx86_64$0.9910
m5zn.6xlarge2496 GBx86_64$1.9820
m5zn.12xlarge48192 GBx86_64$3.9641