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c5.2xlarge

The c5.2xlarge instance is in the Compute optimized family with 8 vCPUs, 16 GiB of memory and up to 10 Gibps of bandwidth starting at $0.34 per hour.

Pricing

$0.34

On Demand

$0.156

Spot

$0.214

1-Year Reserved

$0.142

3-Year Reserved

Family Sizes

SizevCPUsMemory (GiB)
c5.large24
c5.xlarge48
c5.2xlarge816
c5.4xlarge1632
c5.9xlarge3672
c5.12xlarge4896
c5.18xlarge72144
c5.24xlarge96192
c5.metal96192

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Instance Variants

Variant
c5
c5a
c5ad
c5d
c5n

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Instance Details

ComputeValue
vCPUs8
Memory (GiB)16
Memory per vCPU (GiB)2
Physical ProcessorIntel Xeon Platinum 8124M
Clock Speed (GHz)3.4 GHz
CPU Architecturex86_64
GPU
0
GPU Architecture
none
Video Memory (GiB)0
GPU Compute Capability ?0
FPGA
0
NetworkingValue
Network Performance (Gibps)up to 10
Enhanced Networking
true
IPv6
true
Placement Group ?
StorageValue
EBS Optimized
true
Max Bandwidth (Mbps) on EBS4750
Max Throughput (MB/s) on EBS593.75
Max I/O operations/second IOPS20000
Baseline Bandwidth (Mbps) on EBS2300
Baseline Throughput (MB/s) on EBS287.5
Baseline I/O operations/second IOPS10000
Devices0
Swap Partition
false
NVME Drive ?
false
Disk Space (GiB)0
SSD
false
Initialize Storage
false
AmazonValue
Generation
current
Instance Typec5.2xlarge
FamilyCompute optimized
NameC5 High-CPU Double Extra Large
Elastic Map Reduce EMR
true
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