c5.xlarge · atlas

c Compute

5 Generation 5

xlarge 4 vCPU · 8 GiB

$0.2120/hr

On-demand in N. California

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 N. California. Bars are relative to on-demand.

Plan	Monthly	Yearly	Saves
On-demand Pay by the second, no commitment	$155	$1,857
Reserved, 1 yr No upfront, this size and region	$97.82	$1,174	−37%
Reserved, 3 yr No upfront, this size and region	$67.16	$806	−57%

Plan

Monthly

Yearly

Saves

On-demand

Pay by the second, no commitment

$155

$1,857

Reserved, 1 yr

No upfront, this size and region

$97.82

$1,174

−37%

Reserved, 3 yr

No upfront, this size and region

$67.16

$806

−57%

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.

$0.106 large $0.212 xl $0.424 2xl $0.848 4xl $1.91 9xl $2.54 12xl $3.82 18xl $5.09 24xl $5.09 metal

Price in every region

Cheapest in Asia Pacific (Mumbai). Moving from N. California would save $368 a year per instance.

Asia Pacific (Mumbai) ap-south-1$0.1700 −20%Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) ap-south-2$0.1700 −20%US East (N. Virginia) us-east-1$0.1700 −20%US East (Ohio) us-east-2$0.1700 −20%US West (Oregon) us-west-2$0.1700 −20%Europe (Stockholm) eu-north-1$0.1820 −14%Canada (Central) ca-central-1$0.1860 −12%Canada West (Calgary) ca-west-1$0.1860 −12%Asia Pacific (Seoul) ap-northeast-2$0.1920 −9%Europe (Spain) eu-south-2$0.1920 −9%Europe (Ireland) eu-west-1$0.1920 −9%Europe (Frankfurt) eu-central-1$0.1940 −8%Asia Pacific (Singapore) ap-southeast-1$0.1960 −8%Asia Pacific (Jakarta) ap-southeast-3$0.1960 −8%Europe (Milan) eu-south-1$0.2020 −5%Europe (London) eu-west-2$0.2020 −5%

Europe (Paris) eu-west-3$0.2020 −5%Israel (Tel Aviv) il-central-1$0.2020 −5%AWS GovCloud (US-East) us-gov-east-1$0.2040 −4%AWS GovCloud (US-West) us-gov-west-1$0.2040 −4%Middle East (UAE) me-central-1$0.2110 0%Middle East (Bahrain) me-south-1$0.2110 0%US West (N. California) us-west-1$0.2120 base Europe (Zurich) eu-central-2$0.2130 0%Asia Pacific (Tokyo) ap-northeast-1$0.2140 +1%Asia Pacific (Osaka) ap-northeast-3$0.2140 +1%Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) ap-east-1$0.2160 +2%Asia Pacific (Sydney) ap-southeast-2$0.2220 +5%Asia Pacific (Melbourne) ap-southeast-4$0.2220 +5%Africa (Cape Town) af-south-1$0.2280 +8%South America (São Paulo) sa-east-1$0.2620 +24%

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

Same shape, other families

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

Instance	Processor	Generation	Local disk	Price/hr	vs c5.xlarge
c6g.xlarge	Graviton2	Gen 6	EBS only	$0.1696	−20%
c7g.xlarge	Graviton3	Gen 7	EBS only	$0.1802	−15%
c5a.xlarge	EPYC Rome	Gen 5	EBS only	$0.1900	−10%
c6a.xlarge	EPYC Milan	Gen 6	EBS only	$0.1908	−10%
c6gd.xlarge	Graviton2	Gen 6	237 GB NVMe	$0.1920	−9%
c8g.xlarge	Graviton4	Gen 8	EBS only	$0.1982	−6%
c7i-flex.xlarge	Xeon Sapphire Rapids	Gen 7	EBS only	$0.2115	0%
c5.xlarge	Xeon Skylake	Newest	EBS only	$0.2120	—
c6i.xlarge	Xeon Ice Lake	Gen 6	EBS only	$0.2120	0%
c6gn.xlarge	Graviton2	Gen 6	EBS only	$0.2160	+2%
c8i-flex.xlarge	Xeon Granite Rapids	Newest	EBS only	$0.2220	+5%
c7i.xlarge	Xeon Sapphire Rapids	Gen 7	EBS only	$0.2226	+5%
c7gd.xlarge	Graviton3	Gen 7	237 GB NVMe	$0.2268	+7%
c8i.xlarge	Xeon Granite Rapids	Newest	EBS only	$0.2337	+10%
c5d.xlarge	Xeon Skylake	Gen 5	100 GB NVMe	$0.2400	+13%
c7a.xlarge	EPYC Genoa	Gen 7	EBS only	$0.2560	+21%
c6in.xlarge	Xeon Ice Lake	Gen 6	EBS only	$0.2835	+34%
c8gn.xlarge	Graviton4	Newest	EBS only	$0.2962	+40%
c8gb.xlarge	Graviton4	Gen 8	EBS only	$0.2962	+40%

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