Amazon EC2 m5.large, February 21st 2020
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We have run a full suite of performance tests on the m5.large VPS plan of Amazon EC2. VPSBenchmarks bought, setup the server and started the tests.
On this page, you'll find:
- Price and specifications for the m5.large plan.
- The grades that summarize its performance in 5 categories based on the benchmarks results.
- Links to the detailed benchmarks results that can be compared to other providers and other plans.
| Provider | Plan | Monthly price | Long term discounted price | Hourly billing | Num CPU cores | Memory (GB) | Disk space (GB) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon EC2 | m5.large | $73.12 |
$48.53/month
(-33%) Minimum: 1 year |
Yes | 2 | 8 | 40 |
Note: the CPU details Frequency is the frequency observed at the start of the trial. It may vary as the trial progresses.
Warning: network bandwidth costs are not included in the price above.
Grades
Grades are calculated by combining results from web, sysbench, endurance, yabs (geekbench, fio, iperf3) and network transfers tests.
Grade A is best, grade F is worst. Follow the letter links to find the test results backing the grade.
Overall Score: 74 (Price Weighted)
Review the list of metrics that the grades above are calculated from.
VPS Instance Provisioning Time
It took 10 seconds from the time the order took place to the time this instance was ready to accept connections.
Test Results
- Web Runs: performance of a web application running on the server with locally generated load. Latencies and max request rate.
- Sysbench: CPU, disk IO and memory speed tests.
- Endurance: output over time of a long running cpu intensive application.
- Network Transfers: maximum HTTP download and upload speeds between the VPS and servers located nearby.
- Yabs: test suite that includes Geekbench CPU tests, Fio for disk IO and Iperf3 for network transfers.
- Live Web Tests: latencies of a web application with live traffic.
- Remote timings: latencies of a web application measured from 4 different continents.
Web Runs
During the Web Run tests, a web application is loaded with locally generated HTTP requests at various rates. We measure latencies and rate of errors at each load level.
Review and compare Amazon EC2 - m5.large web runs with other cloud providers.
Sysbench
We ran Sysbench tests on this VPS, including CPU tests, random and sequential, read and write IO tests and memory tests.
Review and compare all Sysbench numbers for the Amazon EC2 - m5.large VPS plan.
Remote Timings
Response times for this VPS were continuously measured from 5 locations and 4 continents in the world. Each measure includes DNS resolution time, connection time, TLS handshake time and server response time.
Review and compare all Remote Timings numbers for the Amazon EC2 - m5.large VPS plan.
Network Transfers
We have performed large file transfers from the Amazon EC2 - m5.large VPS, both downloads and uploads and we measured the speed of the transfers.
The transfers involve multiple files, 10 threads and last for at least 10 seconds at maximum speed. The transfers are repeated 4 times from different nearby servers and only the fastest transfer is considered in grades and comparisons.
Sustained CPU Endurance Run
Can your VPS handle 24 hours of sustained CPU load without flinching? How much can it handle? Does the provider throttle your CPU after a while?
Review and compare all Endurance numbers for the Amazon EC2 - m5.large VPS plan.
