On-Demand
$248.20/mo
Reserved - 1 Year
$145.92/mo
vCPUs
8
Memory
16 GiB

c5 Family

Compute optimized
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2 vCPU4 GiB
$62.0500
/mo
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4 vCPU8 GiB
$124.1000
/mo
c5.2xlarge
8 vCPU16 GiB
$248.2000
/mo
c5.4xlarge
16 vCPU32 GiB
$496.4000
/mo
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36 vCPU72 GiB
$1116.9000
/mo
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48 vCPU96 GiB
$1489.2000
/mo
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72 vCPU144 GiB
$2233.8000
/mo
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96 vCPU192 GiB
$2978.4000
/mo
c5.metal
96 vCPU192 GiB
$2978.4000
/mo
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c5.2xlarge

Updated: March 18, 2026
The c5.2xlarge instance is in the C5 Compute optimized family with 8 vCPUs and 16 GiB of memory, pricing starts at $0.3400 per hour and $248.2000 per month in us-east-1 region.
Configuration & Pricing
Pricing
Monthly Cost
$248.2000 / month
Hourly Cost
$0.3400 / hour
Reserved (1 yr)
$145.9167 / month
Reserved (3 yr)
$90.5278 / month
Compute
Name
C5 High-CPU Double Extra Large
Series
C5
Compute Family
Compute optimized
Generation
current
vCPUs
8
Instance Memory
16 GiB
GiB of Memory per vCPU
2.00 GiB/vCPU
Clock Speed(GHz)
3.4 GHz
Physical Processor
Intel Xeon Platinum 8124M
CPU Architecture
x86_64
GPUs
0
CoreMark Score
132,664.483
Networking
Network Performance
Up to 10 Gigabit
Max IPs
60
Enhanced Networking
Yes
IPv6 Support
Yes
Storage
Instance Storage
EBS only
EBS Optimized
true
Max Bandwidth (Mbps) on EBS
4750 Mbps
Max Throughput (Mbps) on EBS
593.75 MB/s
Max IOPS on EBS
20000 IOPS
Baseline Bandwidth (Mbps) on EBS
2300 Mbps
Baseline Throughput (Mbps) on EBS
287.5 MB/s
Baseline IOPS on EBS
10000 IOPS

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