C5 Compute Optimized

High-performance processors for compute-intensive applications.

Name:cCompute Optimizedc = Compute OptimizedOptimized for compute-bound applications that benefit from high-performance processors (web servers, batch processing, gaming servers, and video encoding).55th Generation5 = 5th GenerationAWS 5th generation hardware platform with updated CPU/system architecture.

Common use cases

  • Batch processing
  • Scientific modeling
  • Gaming servers
  • High-performance web servers

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Instance types (8)

InstancevCPUMemoryArchitectureFrom (Linux, $/hr)
c5.large24 GBx86_64$0.0850
c5.xlarge48 GBx86_64$0.1700
c5.2xlarge816 GBx86_64$0.3400
c5.4xlarge1632 GBx86_64$0.6800
c5.9xlarge3672 GBx86_64$1.5300
c5.12xlarge4896 GBx86_64$2.0400
c5.18xlarge72144 GBx86_64$3.0600
c5.24xlarge96192 GBx86_64$4.0800