r5.large · EC2 Prices

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5 Generation 5

large 2 vCPU · 16 GiB

$123/mo

On-demand in Cape Town

On-demand 1-yr 3-yr

2 vCPU

Xeon Skylake, 3.1 GHz

16 GiB

8 GiB per vCPU

EBS only

Local storage

Up to 10 Gbps

Network bandwidth

Up to 4.75 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	$123	$1,472
Reserved, 1 yr No upfront, this size and region	$77.38	$929	−37%
Reserved, 3 yr No upfront, this size and region	$53.29	$639	−57%

Plan

Monthly

Yearly

Saves

On-demand

Pay by the second, no commitment

$123

$1,472

Reserved, 1 yr

No upfront, this size and region

$77.38

$929

−37%

Reserved, 3 yr

No upfront, this size and region

$53.29

$639

−57%

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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.

$123 large $245 xl $491 2xl $981 4xl $2.0k 8xl $2.9k 12xl $3.9k 16xl $5.9k 24xl $5.9k metal

Price in every region

Cheapest in US East (N. Virginia). Moving from Cape Town would save $368 a year per instance.

US East (N. Virginia) us-east-1$91.98 −25%US East (Ohio) us-east-2$91.98 −25%US West (Oregon) us-west-2$91.98 −25%Asia Pacific (Mumbai) ap-south-1$94.90 −23%Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) ap-south-2$94.90 −23%Europe (Stockholm) eu-north-1$97.82 −20%Canada (Central) ca-central-1$101 −18%Canada West (Calgary) ca-west-1$101 −18%US West (N. California) us-west-1$102 −17%Europe (Spain) eu-south-2$103 −16%Europe (Ireland) eu-west-1$103 −16%Europe (Milan) eu-south-1$108 −12%Europe (London) eu-west-2$108 −12%Europe (Paris) eu-west-3$108 −12%Israel (Tel Aviv) il-central-1$108 −12%Asia Pacific (Sydney) ap-southeast-2$110 −10%

Asia Pacific (Melbourne) ap-southeast-4$110 −10%AWS GovCloud (US-East) us-gov-east-1$110 −10%AWS GovCloud (US-West) us-gov-west-1$110 −10%Asia Pacific (Tokyo) ap-northeast-1$111 −10%Asia Pacific (Seoul) ap-northeast-2$111 −10%Asia Pacific (Osaka) ap-northeast-3$111 −10%Asia Pacific (Singapore) ap-southeast-1$111 −10%Asia Pacific (Jakarta) ap-southeast-3$111 −10%Europe (Frankfurt) eu-central-1$111 −10%Middle East (UAE) me-central-1$113 −8%Middle East (Bahrain) me-south-1$113 −8%Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) ap-east-1$122 −1%Europe (Zurich) eu-central-2$122 −1%Africa (Cape Town) af-south-1$123 base South America (São Paulo) sa-east-1$147 +20%

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

Same shape, other families

Every instance with 2 vCPU · 16 GiB in Cape Town, ranked by price.

Instance	Processor	Generation	Local disk	Price/mo	vs r5.large
r6g.large	Graviton2	Gen 6	EBS only	$98.11	−20%
r7g.large	Graviton3	Gen 7	EBS only	$104	−15%
r6gd.large	Graviton2	Gen 6	118 GB NVMe	$111	−10%
r8g.large	Graviton4	Gen 8	EBS only	$115	−7%
r5.large	Xeon Skylake	Newest	EBS only	$123	—
r6i.large	Xeon Ice Lake	Gen 6	EBS only	$123	0%
r8i-flex.large	Xeon Granite Rapids	Gen 8	EBS only	$128	+5%
r7gd.large	Graviton3	Gen 7	118 GB NVMe	$131	+7%
r8i.large	Xeon Granite Rapids	Newest	EBS only	$135	+10%
r5d.large	Xeon Skylake	Gen 5	75 GB NVMe	$139	+13%
r8gd.large	Graviton4	Gen 8	118 GB NVMe	$142	+15%
r5n.large	Xeon Cascade Lake	Gen 5	EBS only	$145	+18%
r6id.large	Xeon Ice Lake	Gen 6	118 GB NVMe	$146	+19%
r5dn.large	Xeon Cascade Lake	Gen 5	75 GB NVMe	$161	+32%
i4i.large	Xeon Ice Lake	Gen 4	468 GB NVMe	$165	+35%
i7i.large	Xeon Emerald Rapids	Newest	468 GB NVMe	$181	+48%
i3en.large	Xeon Skylake	Gen 3	1.2 TB NVMe	$217	+77%
i7ie.large	Xeon Emerald Rapids	Gen 7	1.2 TB NVMe	$249	+103%

Specifications

API name: r5.large
Processor: Intel Xeon Platinum 8175
Local storage: EBS only
Family: Memory optimized
Clock speed: 3.1 GHz
Network: Up to 10 Gbps
Generation: Newest
Architecture: x86_64
EBS bandwidth: Up to 4.75 Gbps
vCPUs: 2
Memory: 16 GiB
GPUs: None