c5.large · EC2 Prices

c Compute

5 Generation 5

large 2 vCPU · 4 GiB

$0.1020/hr

On-demand in US-West

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 US-West. Bars are relative to on-demand.

Plan	Monthly	Yearly	Saves
On-demand Pay by the second, no commitment	$74.46	$894
Reserved, 1 yr No upfront, this size and region	$46.72	$561	−37%
Reserved, 3 yr No upfront, this size and region	$29.93	$359	−60%

Plan

Monthly

Yearly

Saves

On-demand

Pay by the second, no commitment

$74.46

$894

Reserved, 1 yr

No upfront, this size and region

$46.72

$561

−37%

Reserved, 3 yr

No upfront, this size and region

$29.93

$359

−60%

What will it cost me?

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Instances Hours a day Days a month

× c5.large, on-demand

/mo

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.

$0.102 large $0.204 xl $0.408 2xl $0.816 4xl $1.84 9xl $2.45 12xl $3.67 18xl $4.90 24xl $4.90 metal

Price in every region

Cheapest in Asia Pacific (Mumbai). Moving from US-West would save $149 a year per instance.

Asia Pacific (Mumbai) ap-south-1$0.0850 −17%Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) ap-south-2$0.0850 −17%US East (N. Virginia) us-east-1$0.0850 −17%US East (Ohio) us-east-2$0.0850 −17%US West (Oregon) us-west-2$0.0850 −17%Europe (Stockholm) eu-north-1$0.0910 −11%Canada (Central) ca-central-1$0.0930 −9%Canada West (Calgary) ca-west-1$0.0930 −9%Asia Pacific (Seoul) ap-northeast-2$0.0960 −6%Europe (Spain) eu-south-2$0.0960 −6%Europe (Ireland) eu-west-1$0.0960 −6%Europe (Frankfurt) eu-central-1$0.0970 −5%Asia Pacific (Singapore) ap-southeast-1$0.0980 −4%Asia Pacific (Jakarta) ap-southeast-3$0.0980 −4%Europe (Milan) eu-south-1$0.1010 −1%Europe (London) eu-west-2$0.1010 −1%

Europe (Paris) eu-west-3$0.1010 −1%Israel (Tel Aviv) il-central-1$0.1010 −1%AWS GovCloud (US-East) us-gov-east-1$0.1020 0%AWS GovCloud (US-West) us-gov-west-1$0.1020 base Middle East (UAE) me-central-1$0.1060 +4%Middle East (Bahrain) me-south-1$0.1060 +4%US West (N. California) us-west-1$0.1060 +4%Asia Pacific (Tokyo) ap-northeast-1$0.1070 +5%Asia Pacific (Osaka) ap-northeast-3$0.1070 +5%Europe (Zurich) eu-central-2$0.1070 +5%Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) ap-east-1$0.1080 +6%Asia Pacific (Sydney) ap-southeast-2$0.1110 +9%Asia Pacific (Melbourne) ap-southeast-4$0.1110 +9%Africa (Cape Town) af-south-1$0.1140 +12%South America (São Paulo) sa-east-1$0.1310 +28%

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

Same shape, other families

Every instance with 2 vCPU · 4 GiB in US-West, ranked by price.

Instance	Processor	Generation	Local disk	Price/hr	vs c5.large
t4g.medium	Graviton2	Gen 4	EBS only	$0.0392	−62%
t3a.medium	EPYC Naples	Gen 3	EBS only	$0.0439	−57%
t3.medium	Xeon Skylake	Newest	EBS only	$0.0488	−52%
t2.medium	Xeon Family	Gen 2	EBS only	$0.0544	−47%
c6g.large	Graviton2	Gen 6	EBS only	$0.0816	−20%
c7g.large	Graviton3	Gen 7	EBS only	$0.0867	−15%
c5a.large	EPYC Rome	Gen 5	EBS only	$0.0920	−10%
c6gd.large	Graviton2	Gen 6	118 GB NVMe	$0.0928	−9%
c8g.large	Graviton4	Gen 8	EBS only	$0.0954	−6%
c7i-flex.large	Xeon Sapphire Rapids	Gen 7	EBS only	$0.1017	0%
c5.large	Xeon Skylake	Newest	EBS only	$0.1020	—
c6i.large	Xeon Ice Lake	Gen 6	EBS only	$0.1020	0%
c6gn.large	Graviton2	Gen 6	EBS only	$0.1040	+2%
c7i.large	Xeon Sapphire Rapids	Gen 7	EBS only	$0.1071	+5%
c7gd.large	Graviton3	Gen 7	118 GB NVMe	$0.1096	+7%
c5d.large	Xeon Skylake	Gen 5	50 GB NVMe	$0.1160	+14%
c6id.large	Xeon Ice Lake	Gen 6	118 GB NVMe	$0.1218	+19%
c6in.large	Xeon Ice Lake	Gen 6	EBS only	$0.1365	+34%
c8gn.large	Graviton4	Newest	EBS only	$0.1426	+40%

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