AWS Amazon EC2

c1.xlarge

Prev Gen

Part of the C1 Compute Optimized family — High-performance processors for compute-intensive applications.

Name:cCompute Optimized11st GenerationxlargeExtra Large (1x)

On-demand, Linux

$0.5200/ hr

~$379.60/mo · lowest in US East (N. Virginia), us-east-1

Savings Plan, Linux

$0.2580/ hr

From, with a 3-year Compute Savings Plan, No Upfront: −50% vs on-demand rate (us-east-1)

Per unit

$0.0650/ vCPU-hr

$0.0743/GB-hr

Compute

8vCPUs

8 cores • x86_64

Memory

7GB

0.9 GB / vCPU

Network

High

Baseline: 1 Gbps

Storage & EBS

125MB/s

Max: 8,000 IOPS

On Google Cloud

The nearest Google Cloud machines to c1.xlarge by vCPU and memory, at On-demand Linux rates in Northern Virginia (us-east-1 ↔ us-east4).

Machine	Size	On-demand Linux	vs c1.xlarge
c1.xlargeThis page · AWS, us-east-1	8 vCPU · 7 GiB	$0.5200/hr	—
n1-highcpu-88 vCPU and 7.2 GiB for 8 vCPU and 7 GiB, the nearest size up; Intel on both; 8 physical cores vs 4; local disk on c1.xlarge only	8 vCPU · 7.2 GiB	$0.319191/hr	39% less
n2-highcpu-88 vCPU and 8 GiB for 8 vCPU and 7 GiB, the nearest size up; Intel on both; 8 physical cores vs 4; local disk on c1.xlarge only	8 vCPU · 8 GiB	$0.323008/hr	38% less
e2-highcpu-88 vCPU and 8 GiB for 8 vCPU and 7 GiB, the nearest size up; Intel vs Intel or AMD; 8 physical cores vs 4; local disk on c1.xlarge only	8 vCPU · 8 GiB	$0.222876/hr	57% less

Matched on vCPU and memory, then CPU vendor, then rate; a larger size is offered only when nothing is the same size. On-demand Linux only: Spot and commitments work differently on the two clouds, so they aren't compared here.

Technical Specifications & Limits

Hardware specs, container thresholds, and system limits

Compute & Processor

ProcessorIntel Xeon Family

Architecturex86_64 (x86_64)

vCPUs / Threads8 vCPUs

Physical Cores8

Clock Speed—

Intel AVX / AVX2No

Intel Turbo BoostNo

Bare MetalNo (Virtualized)

Performance & Benchmarks

CoreMark Score96,299

CoreMark / vCPU12,037.3 / core

FFmpeg Transcoding32 FPS

CoreMark per Dollar185,190 score / $

Cost per vCPU-hr$0.0650

Cost per GB-hr$0.0743

Containers & Kubernetes

EKS Max Pods58 pods

Max ENIs4

IPv4/v6 per ENI15

Total Addressable IPs60 total IPs

CNI Prefix DelegationStandard CNI

Networking & Bandwidth

Network PerformanceHigh

Baseline Bandwidth1 Gbps

Burst / Peak Bandwidth10 Gbps

Enhanced NetworkingNo

EFA SupportNo

IPv6 SupportNative Dual-Stack Supported

Storage & EBS Optimization

Storage ConfigurationSSD (1680 GB)

Local NVMe Disk1,680 GB SSD

EBS Baseline Throughput125 MB/s

EBS Max Throughput125 MB/s

EBS Baseline IOPS8,000

EBS Max / Burst IOPS8,000

Dedicated EBS Throughput1 Mbps

Platform & Architecture Details

Hypervisor / SystemXen Hypervisor

Nitro EnclavesNot Supported

Normalization Factor8

Generation StatusPrevious Generation

Rates by region

Live on-demand rates across all global AWS cloud regions

Lowest Price Region

$0.5200/ hr

US East (N. Virginia) (us-east-1)

Highest Price Region

$0.7180/ hr

South America (Sao Paulo) (sa-east-1)

Global Fleet Average

$0.6124/ hr

Across all active regions

Regional Coverage

9regions

Available worldwide

Linux — Available in all 9 regions
Region	On-Demand Price	% vs On-Demand Rate
ap-southeast-1 Asia Pacific (Singapore)	$0.6550
ap-southeast-2 Asia Pacific (Sydney)	$0.6550
ap-northeast-1 Asia Pacific (Tokyo)	$0.6320
us-gov-west-1 AWS GovCloud (US-West)	$0.6280
eu-west-1 EU (Ireland)	$0.5920
sa-east-1 South America (Sao Paulo) Highest	$0.7180
us-east-1 US East (N. Virginia) Lowest	$0.5200
us-west-1 US West (N. California)	$0.5920
us-west-2 US West (Oregon) Lowest	$0.5200

Windows — Available in all 9 regions
Region	On-Demand Price	% vs On-Demand Rate
ap-southeast-1 Asia Pacific (Singapore) Highest	$1.0650
ap-southeast-2 Asia Pacific (Sydney) Highest	$1.0650
ap-northeast-1 Asia Pacific (Tokyo)	$1.0320
us-gov-west-1 AWS GovCloud (US-West)	$0.9480
eu-west-1 EU (Ireland) Lowest	$0.8400
sa-east-1 South America (Sao Paulo)	$1.0380
us-east-1 US East (N. Virginia) Lowest	$0.8400
us-west-1 US West (N. California)	$0.9120
us-west-2 US West (Oregon) Lowest	$0.8400

Savings Plans: what to know

A Savings Plan commits you to a dollar amount per hour of spend for one or three years, not to an instance: usage up to that amount is billed at the plan's rates and the rest at on-demand, and unused commitment is still billed.
A Compute Savings Plan follows your usage across instance families, sizes, regions and operating systems; an EC2 Instance Savings Plan is locked to one family in one region in exchange for a lower rate (what that flexibility costs).
In US East (N. Virginia) (us-east-1), the 3-year Compute Savings Plan rate (No Upfront) for c1.xlarge on Linux is 50% of the on-demand rate, so the instance has to run at least 50% of the hours for the commitment to cost less than on-demand.
On Windows a plan discounts only the compute part of the rate: the Windows license part costs the same as on demand, so the percentage off is smaller than on Linux.
Rates are AWS's effective hourly rate for each payment option; All Upfront pays the whole term's commitment at purchase, which is why its hourly rate is lower; Partial Upfront (at least half up front) isn't shown on this page. The Savings Plans calculator has all three and sizes a commitment for this instance or a mix of them. How AWS applies a plan each hour: how Compute Savings Plans decide what they cover. Sizing one for elastic workloads: managing Compute Savings Plans.