m5.24xlarge pricing and specs in Asia Pacific (Mumbai)
96 vCPU · 384 GiB · 25 Gigabit · Intel Xeon Platinum 8175 previous generation
$4.8480/hour on-demand · $3,539/month (Linux, Shared)
m5.24xlarge is a general-purpose EC2 instance with 96 vCPU and 384 GiB, generation 5 of the m family; AWS lists it as a previous generation. On-demand it costs $4.8480 an hour, about $3,539 a month if it runs all month. A one-year commitment with nothing up front works out at $3.0540 an hour and pays for itself above roughly 459 hours a month; below that, on-demand is cheaper. The three-year options go down to $1.8228 an hour, 62% below on-demand. The newer m5a.24xlarge offers the same size for $2.6660 an hour, 45% less. Across regions the cheapest place to run m5.24xlarge is US East (N. Virginia) (us-east-1) at $4.6080 an hour, 5% below Asia Pacific (Mumbai).
Pricing by OS (hourly, USD, Shared)
| Option | Linux | Windows | RHEL | SUSE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| On-Demand | $4.8480 | $9.2640 | $5.8850 | $4.9480 |
| Spot | $0.9604 | $5.1159 | — | — |
| 1y Std RI NU | $3.0540 | $7.4700 | $4.0910 | $3.0870 |
| 1y Std RI PU | $2.9085 | $7.3244 | $3.9455 | $2.9415 |
| 1y Std RI AU | $2.8506 | $7.2667 | $3.8874 | $2.8837 |
| 3y Std RI NU | $2.0940 | $6.5100 | $3.1310 | $2.1270 |
| 3y Std RI PU | $1.9396 | $6.3556 | $2.9756 | $1.9660 |
| 3y Std RI AU | $1.8228 | $6.2389 | $2.8597 | $1.8492 |
| 1y Conv RI NU | $3.5820 | $7.9980 | $4.6190 | $3.6150 |
| 3y Conv RI NU | $2.4360 | $6.8520 | $3.4730 | $2.4690 |
| 1y Compute SP NU | $3.5820 | $7.9980 | $4.6190 | $3.6420 |
| 3y Compute SP NU | $2.4360 | $6.8520 | $3.4730 | $2.4900 |
| 1y EC2 SP NU | $3.0540 | $7.4700 | $4.0910 | $3.1140 |
| 3y EC2 SP NU | $2.0940 | $6.5100 | $3.1310 | $2.1480 |
Spot by AZ (7-day p50, Linux): ap-south-1c $0.8802 · ap-south-1a $0.9604 · ap-south-1b $1.4295
Newer generations of the same size
Same family letter and size in a newer generation, ranked by price. “vCPU per $” uses vCPU as the performance proxy — newer chips usually add more, so it is a floor.
Graviton-eligible → m8g.24xlarge (-36%)| Type | $/h | Price Δ | vCPU per $ Δ | Saves / mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| m5a.24xlarge | $2.6660 | -45% | +82% | $1,593 |
| m6a.24xlarge | $2.6664 | -45% | +82% | $1,593 |
| m8g.24xlarge Graviton arch change | $3.0797 | -36% | +57% | $1,291 |
| m5ad.24xlarge | $3.2210 | -34% | +51% | $1,188 |
| m8gd.24xlarge Graviton arch change | $3.6806 | -24% | +32% | $852 |
| m6i.24xlarge | $4.8480 | 0.0% | 0.0% | $0 |
| m7i.24xlarge | $5.0904 | +5% | -5% | $-177 |
| m8i.24xlarge | $5.3448 | +10% | -9% | $-363 |
Cheapest regions for m5.24xlarge
| Region | On-Demand $/h | vs ap-south-1 | Saves / mo |
|---|---|---|---|
| US East (N. Virginia) us-east-1 | $4.6080 | -5% | $175 |
| US East (Ohio) us-east-2 | $4.6080 | -5% | $175 |
| US West (Oregon) us-west-2 | $4.6080 | -5% | $175 |
| Asia Pacific (Mumbai) ap-south-1 | $4.8480 | current | — |
| Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) ap-south-2 | $4.8480 | 0.0% | $0 |
| EU (Stockholm) eu-north-1 | $4.8960 | +1.0% | $-35 |
Caveat: instance price is only part of the bill. Cross-region and internet data transfer, latency to your users, data-residency rules and service availability can outweigh a few percent on compute.
Price history (ap-south-1)
Daily snapshots since the catalog started tracking this type; a row is added whenever a headline price changes.
| Date | OD Linux | OD Windows | 1y RI | 3y RI | Spot p50 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-05 | $4.8480 | $9.2640 | $3.0540 | $2.0940 | $0.9604 |
| 2026-10-04 | $4.8480 | $9.2640 | $3.0540 | $2.0940 | $0.9694 |
| 2026-10-03 | $4.8480 | $9.2640 | $3.0540 | $2.0940 | $0.9705 |
| 2026-10-02 | $4.8480 | $9.2640 | $3.0540 | $2.0940 | $0.9731 |
| 2026-10-01 | $4.8480 | $9.2640 | $3.0540 | $2.0940 | $0.9876 |
| 2026-09-27 | $4.8480 | $9.2640 | $3.0540 | $2.0940 | $1.0087 |
| 2026-09-26 | $4.8480 | $9.2640 | $3.0540 | $2.0940 | $0.9898 |
| 2026-09-25 | $4.8480 | $9.2640 | $3.0540 | $2.0940 | $0.9915 |
| 2026-09-24 | $4.8480 | $9.2640 | $3.0540 | $2.0940 | $1.0216 |
| 2026-09-22 | $4.8480 | $9.2640 | $3.0540 | $2.0940 | $1.0224 |
All attributes
- vCPU
- 96
- Cores / threads per core
- 48 / 2
- Memory
- 384 GiB
- Memory per vCPU
- 4.00 GiB
- Processor
- Intel Xeon Platinum 8175
- Architecture
- x86_64
- Sustained clock
- 3.1 GHz
- Hypervisor
- nitro
- Generation
- Previous
- Burstable
- No
- Bare metal
- No
- Free tier eligible
- No
- Network performance
- 25 Gigabit
- Network baseline / burst
- 25.0 / 25.0 Gbps
- Max ENIs × IPv4 per ENI
- 15 × 50
- IPv6 / ENA / EFA
- IPv6 / ENA / —
- EBS optimized
- Yes
- EBS bandwidth (baseline / max)
- 19000 / 19000 Mbps
- EBS IOPS (baseline / max)
- 80,000 / 80000
- EBS NVMe
- required
- Instance storage
- EBS only
- GPU
- —
- Placement groups
- cluster, partition, spread
- Hibernation / Nitro Enclaves
- No / Yes
- Dedicated hosts
- Supported
- Boot modes
- legacy-bios, uefi
- Spot supported
- Yes
Public AWS list prices (USD), refreshed nightly (catalog 2026-10-05). RI and Savings Plan rates are effective hourly (upfront amortised over the term) and are charged for every hour of the term. Excludes taxes, data transfer and storage. How these numbers are sourced and checked. Not affiliated with Amazon Web Services.
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