c5.xlarge · EC2 Prices

c Compute

5 Generation 5

xlarge 4 vCPU · 8 GiB

$0.0700/hr

3-yr reserved in Ohio

On-demand 1-yr 3-yr

4 vCPU

Xeon Skylake, 3.4 GHz

8 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 Ohio. Bars are relative to on-demand.

Plan	Monthly	Yearly	Saves
On-demand Pay by the second, no commitment	$124	$1,489
Reserved, 1 yr No upfront, this size and region	$78.11	$937	−37%
Reserved, 3 yr No upfront, this size and region	$51.10	$613	−59%

Plan

Monthly

Yearly

Saves

On-demand

Pay by the second, no commitment

$124

$1,489

Reserved, 1 yr

No upfront, this size and region

$78.11

$937

−37%

Reserved, 3 yr

No upfront, this size and region

$51.10

$613

−59%

What will it cost me?

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× c5.xlarge, 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.

$0.035 large $0.070 xl $0.141 2xl $0.282 4xl $0.634 9xl $0.855 12xl $1.27 18xl $1.71 24xl $1.71 metal

Price in every region

Cheapest in US East (Ohio).

US East (Ohio) us-east-2$0.0700 base US East (N. Virginia) us-east-1$0.0710 +1%US West (Oregon) us-west-2$0.0710 +1%Asia Pacific (Mumbai) ap-south-1$0.0730 +4%Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) ap-south-2$0.0730 +4%Canada (Central) ca-central-1$0.0780 +11%Canada West (Calgary) ca-west-1$0.0780 +11%Europe (Stockholm) eu-north-1$0.0790 +13%AWS GovCloud (US-East) us-gov-east-1$0.0810 +16%AWS GovCloud (US-West) us-gov-west-1$0.0810 +16%Asia Pacific (Seoul) ap-northeast-2$0.0830 +19%Europe (Ireland) eu-west-1$0.0830 +19%Europe (Spain) eu-south-2$0.0830 +19%Europe (Frankfurt) eu-central-1$0.0840 +20%Asia Pacific (Singapore) ap-southeast-1$0.0850 +21%Asia Pacific (Jakarta) ap-southeast-3$0.0850 +21%

Europe (Milan) eu-south-1$0.0870 +24%Israel (Tel Aviv) il-central-1$0.0870 +24%Europe (Paris) eu-west-3$0.0870 +24%Europe (London) eu-west-2$0.0870 +24%Middle East (UAE) me-central-1$0.0910 +30%Middle East (Bahrain) me-south-1$0.0910 +30%US West (N. California) us-west-1$0.0920 +31%Europe (Zurich) eu-central-2$0.0920 +31%Asia Pacific (Tokyo) ap-northeast-1$0.0920 +31%Asia Pacific (Osaka) ap-northeast-3$0.0920 +31%Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) ap-east-1$0.0930 +33%Asia Pacific (Sydney) ap-southeast-2$0.0960 +37%Asia Pacific (Melbourne) ap-southeast-4$0.0960 +37%Africa (Cape Town) af-south-1$0.0980 +40%South America (São Paulo) sa-east-1$0.1130 +61%

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

Same shape, other families

Every instance with 4 vCPU · 8 GiB in Ohio, ranked by price.

Instance	Processor	Generation	Local disk	Price/hr	vs c5.xlarge
a1.xlarge	Graviton	Previous	EBS only	$0.0441	−37%
c6g.xlarge	Graviton2	Gen 6	EBS only	$0.0588	−16%
c7g.xlarge	Graviton3	Gen 7	EBS only	$0.0636	−9%
c6gd.xlarge	Graviton2	Gen 6	237 GB NVMe	$0.0664	−5%
c5a.xlarge	EPYC Rome	Gen 5	EBS only	$0.0670	−4%
c6a.xlarge	EPYC Milan	Gen 6	EBS only	$0.0674	−4%
c8g.xlarge	Graviton4	Gen 8	EBS only	$0.0700	0%
c5.xlarge	Xeon Skylake	Newest	EBS only	$0.0700	—
c5ad.xlarge	EPYC Rome	Gen 5	150 GB NVMe	$0.0740	+6%
c6gn.xlarge	Graviton2	Gen 6	EBS only	$0.0742	+6%
c7i-flex.xlarge	Xeon Sapphire Rapids	Gen 7	EBS only	$0.0746	+7%
c6i.xlarge	Xeon Ice Lake	Gen 6	EBS only	$0.0748	+7%
c7gd.xlarge	Graviton3	Gen 7	237 GB NVMe	$0.0758	+8%
c7i.xlarge	Xeon Sapphire Rapids	Gen 7	EBS only	$0.0786	+12%
c5d.xlarge	Xeon Skylake	Gen 5	100 GB NVMe	$0.0800	+14%
c6in.xlarge	Xeon Ice Lake	Gen 6	EBS only	$0.0824	+18%
c6id.xlarge	Xeon Ice Lake	Gen 6	237 GB NVMe	$0.0842	+20%
c7a.xlarge	EPYC Genoa	Gen 7	EBS only	$0.0904	+29%
c7gn.xlarge	Graviton3	Gen 7	EBS only	$0.0907	+30%

Specifications

API name: c5.xlarge
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: 4
Memory: 8 GiB
GPUs: None