c5.xlarge · atlas

c Compute

5 Generation 5

xlarge 4 vCPU · 8 GiB

$0.1290/hr

1-yr reserved in US-West

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

Plan	Monthly	Yearly	Saves
On-demand Pay by the second, no commitment	$149	$1,787
Reserved, 1 yr No upfront, this size and region	$94.17	$1,130	−37%
Reserved, 3 yr No upfront, this size and region	$59.13	$710	−60%

Plan

Monthly

Yearly

Saves

On-demand

Pay by the second, no commitment

$149

$1,787

Reserved, 1 yr

No upfront, this size and region

$94.17

$1,130

−37%

Reserved, 3 yr

No upfront, this size and region

$59.13

$710

−60%

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.

$0.064 large $0.129 xl $0.257 2xl $0.514 4xl $1.16 9xl $1.54 12xl $2.31 18xl $3.08 24xl $3.08 metal

Price in every region

Cheapest in Asia Pacific (Mumbai). Moving from US-West would save $193 a year per instance.

Asia Pacific (Mumbai) ap-south-1$0.1070 −17%Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) ap-south-2$0.1070 −17%US East (N. Virginia) us-east-1$0.1070 −17%US East (Ohio) us-east-2$0.1070 −17%US West (Oregon) us-west-2$0.1070 −17%Europe (Stockholm) eu-north-1$0.1150 −11%Canada (Central) ca-central-1$0.1170 −9%Canada West (Calgary) ca-west-1$0.1170 −9%Asia Pacific (Seoul) ap-northeast-2$0.1210 −6%Europe (Spain) eu-south-2$0.1210 −6%Europe (Ireland) eu-west-1$0.1210 −6%Europe (Frankfurt) eu-central-1$0.1220 −5%Asia Pacific (Singapore) ap-southeast-1$0.1230 −5%Asia Pacific (Jakarta) ap-southeast-3$0.1230 −5%Europe (Milan) eu-south-1$0.1270 −2%Europe (London) eu-west-2$0.1270 −2%

Europe (Paris) eu-west-3$0.1270 −2%Israel (Tel Aviv) il-central-1$0.1270 −2%AWS GovCloud (US-East) us-gov-east-1$0.1290 0%AWS GovCloud (US-West) us-gov-west-1$0.1290 base Middle East (UAE) me-central-1$0.1330 +3%Middle East (Bahrain) me-south-1$0.1330 +3%US West (N. California) us-west-1$0.1340 +4%Europe (Zurich) eu-central-2$0.1340 +4%Asia Pacific (Tokyo) ap-northeast-1$0.1350 +5%Asia Pacific (Osaka) ap-northeast-3$0.1350 +5%Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) ap-east-1$0.1360 +5%Asia Pacific (Sydney) ap-southeast-2$0.1400 +9%Asia Pacific (Melbourne) ap-southeast-4$0.1400 +9%Africa (Cape Town) af-south-1$0.1440 +12%South America (São Paulo) sa-east-1$0.1650 +28%

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

Same shape, other families

Every instance with 4 vCPU · 8 GiB in US-West, ranked by price.

Instance	Processor	Generation	Local disk	Price/hr	vs c5.xlarge
c6g.xlarge	Graviton2	Gen 6	EBS only	$0.1028	−20%
c7g.xlarge	Graviton3	Gen 7	EBS only	$0.1147	−11%
c5a.xlarge	EPYC Rome	Gen 5	EBS only	$0.1160	−10%
c6gd.xlarge	Graviton2	Gen 6	237 GB NVMe	$0.1169	−9%
c8g.xlarge	Graviton4	Gen 8	EBS only	$0.1262	−2%
c5.xlarge	Xeon Skylake	Newest	EBS only	$0.1290	—
c6gn.xlarge	Graviton2	Gen 6	EBS only	$0.1310	+2%
c7i-flex.xlarge	Xeon Sapphire Rapids	Gen 7	EBS only	$0.1346	+4%
c6i.xlarge	Xeon Ice Lake	Gen 6	EBS only	$0.1349	+5%
c7gd.xlarge	Graviton3	Gen 7	237 GB NVMe	$0.1381	+7%
c7i.xlarge	Xeon Sapphire Rapids	Gen 7	EBS only	$0.1417	+10%
c5d.xlarge	Xeon Skylake	Gen 5	100 GB NVMe	$0.1460	+13%
c6id.xlarge	Xeon Ice Lake	Gen 6	237 GB NVMe	$0.1535	+19%
c6in.xlarge	Xeon Ice Lake	Gen 6	EBS only	$0.1720	+33%

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