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m5a.large

EC2 Instance

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m5a.large

instance

AMD-based general-purpose instance with 2 vCPUs and 8 GiB memory. Powered by AMD EPYC 7000 series processors for cost-effective performance.

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Spot Pricing Details for

m5a.large

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Last Updated On: December 17, 2024

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Benchmark Test Results for

m5a.large

CPU Encryption Speed Benchmarks

Cloud Mercato tested CPU performance using a range of encryption speed tests:

Encryption Algorithm	Speed (1024 Block Size, 3 threads)
AES-128 CBC	134.9MB
AES-256 CBC	95.5MB
MD5	780.9MB
SHA256	2.0GB
SHA512	454.9MB

I/O Performance

Cloud Mercato's tested the I/O performance of this instance using a 100GB General Purpose SSD. Below are the results:

	Read	Write
Max	3100	3100
Average	3099	3098
Deviation	0.63	0.97
Min	3098	3096

I/O rate testing is conducted with local and block storages attached to the instance. Cloud Mercato uses the well-known open-source tool FIO. To express IOPS the following parametersare used: 4K block, random access, no filesystem (except for write access with root volume and avoidance of cache and buffer.

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The M7 instances have a slight speed advantage even though the overall specification is the same with 2vCPU and 8GB of memory.

29-08-2024

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memory_usage, benchmarking

But how does this explain that t3a.large and m5a.large show different cpu usage during baseline (not burst)? It is the same hardware and we run the same applications.

2024-10-03 00:00:00

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benchmarking

The m5 instance type is similar, but for more consistent workloads. It has a nice balance of CPU, memory, and disk.

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The m5 instance type is similar, but for more consistent workloads. It has a nice balance of CPU, memory, and disk. It‚Äôs not hard to see why almost half of EC2 workloads [are on ‚Äúm‚Äù instances].

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