On-Demand
$62.05/mo
Reserved - 1 Year
$36.50/mo
vCPUs
2
Memory
4 GiB

c5.large

Updated: February 24, 2026
The c5.large instance is in the C5 Compute optimized family with 2 vCPUs and 4 GiB of memory, pricing starts at $0.0850 per hour and $62.0500 per month in us-east-1 region.
Configuration & Pricing
Pricing
Monthly Cost
$62.0500 / month
Hourly Cost
$0.0850 / hour
Reserved (1 yr)
$36.5000 / month
Reserved (3 yr)
$22.6389 / month
Compute
Name
C5 High-CPU Large
Series
C5
Compute Family
Compute optimized
Generation
current
vCPUs
2
Instance Memory
4 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
33,103.448
Networking
Network Performance
Up to 10 Gigabit
Max IPs
30
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
650 Mbps
Baseline Throughput (Mbps) on EBS
81.25 MB/s
Baseline IOPS on EBS
4000 IOPS

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