c5.large · EC2 Prices

c Compute

5 Generation 5

large 2 vCPU · 4 GiB

$52.56/mo

1-yr reserved in Cape Town

On-demand 1-yr 3-yr

2 vCPU

Xeon Skylake, 3.4 GHz

4 GiB

2 GiB per vCPU

EBS only

Local storage

Up to 10 Gbps

Network bandwidth

Up to 2.25 Gbps

EBS bandwidth

x86_64

Architecture

Every way to pay

Prices in Cape Town. Bars are relative to on-demand.

Plan	Monthly	Yearly	Saves
On-demand Pay by the second, no commitment	$83.22	$999
Reserved, 1 yr No upfront, this size and region	$52.56	$631	−37%
Reserved, 3 yr No upfront, this size and region	$35.77	$429	−57%

Plan

Monthly

Yearly

Saves

On-demand

Pay by the second, no commitment

$83.22

$999

Reserved, 1 yr

No upfront, this size and region

$52.56

$631

−37%

Reserved, 3 yr

No upfront, this size and region

$35.77

$429

−57%

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× c5.large, on-demand

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a year

You run these most of the time. A 1-year reservation bills every hour, and would still cost /mo.

Same usage on each plan	Monthly	Yearly
On-demand
Reserved 1 yr
Reserved 3 yr

Reservations bill every hour of the month, whether the instance runs or not.

Other sizes in this family

Price roughly doubles with each step. Pick a size to open it.

$53 large $105 xl $210 2xl $420 4xl $944 9xl $1.3k 12xl $1.9k 18xl $2.5k 24xl $2.5k metal

Price in every region

Cheapest in Asia Pacific (Mumbai). Moving from Cape Town would save $158 a year per instance.

Asia Pacific (Mumbai) ap-south-1$39.42 −25%Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) ap-south-2$39.42 −25%US East (N. Virginia) us-east-1$39.42 −25%US East (Ohio) us-east-2$39.42 −25%US West (Oregon) us-west-2$39.42 −25%Europe (Stockholm) eu-north-1$41.61 −21%Canada (Central) ca-central-1$43.07 −18%Canada West (Calgary) ca-west-1$43.07 −18%Asia Pacific (Seoul) ap-northeast-2$43.80 −17%Europe (Spain) eu-south-2$43.80 −17%Europe (Ireland) eu-west-1$43.80 −17%Europe (Frankfurt) eu-central-1$44.53 −15%Asia Pacific (Singapore) ap-southeast-1$45.26 −14%Asia Pacific (Jakarta) ap-southeast-3$45.26 −14%Europe (Milan) eu-south-1$46.72 −11%Europe (London) eu-west-2$46.72 −11%

Europe (Paris) eu-west-3$46.72 −11%Israel (Tel Aviv) il-central-1$46.72 −11%AWS GovCloud (US-East) us-gov-east-1$46.72 −11%AWS GovCloud (US-West) us-gov-west-1$46.72 −11%Middle East (UAE) me-central-1$48.91 −7%Middle East (Bahrain) me-south-1$48.91 −7%US West (N. California) us-west-1$48.91 −7%Asia Pacific (Tokyo) ap-northeast-1$48.91 −7%Asia Pacific (Osaka) ap-northeast-3$48.91 −7%Europe (Zurich) eu-central-2$48.91 −7%Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) ap-east-1$49.64 −6%Asia Pacific (Sydney) ap-southeast-2$51.10 −3%Asia Pacific (Melbourne) ap-southeast-4$51.10 −3%Africa (Cape Town) af-south-1$52.56 base South America (São Paulo) sa-east-1$60.59 +15%

Not offered in Central , Malaysia , New Zealand , Thailand , Taipei .

Same shape, other families

Every instance with 2 vCPU · 4 GiB in Cape Town, ranked by price.

Instance	Processor	Generation	Local disk	Price/mo	vs c5.large
t4g.medium	Graviton2	Gen 4	EBS only	$19.93	−62%
t3.medium	Xeon Skylake	Newest	EBS only	$24.97	−52%
c6g.large	Graviton2	Gen 6	EBS only	$41.98	−20%
c7g.large	Graviton3	Gen 7	EBS only	$44.53	−15%
c5a.large	EPYC Rome	Gen 5	EBS only	$47.45	−10%
c6gd.large	Graviton2	Gen 6	118 GB NVMe	$47.82	−9%
c8g.large	Graviton4	Gen 8	EBS only	$49.03	−7%
c7i-flex.large	Xeon Sapphire Rapids	Gen 7	EBS only	$52.30	−1%
c6i.large	Xeon Ice Lake	Gen 6	EBS only	$52.43	0%
c5.large	Xeon Skylake	Newest	EBS only	$52.56	—
c5ad.large	EPYC Rome	Gen 5	75 GB NVMe	$54.02	+3%
c7i.large	Xeon Sapphire Rapids	Gen 7	EBS only	$55.05	+5%
c5d.large	Xeon Skylake	Gen 5	50 GB NVMe	$59.86	+14%
c6in.large	Xeon Ice Lake	Gen 6	EBS only	$69.93	+33%

Specifications

API name: c5.large
Processor: Intel Xeon Platinum 8124M
Local storage: EBS only
Family: Compute optimized
Clock speed: 3.4 GHz
Network: Up to 10 Gbps
Generation: Newest
Architecture: x86_64
EBS bandwidth: Up to 2.25 Gbps
vCPUs: 2
Memory: 4 GiB
GPUs: None