AWS Amazon EC2

c4.xlarge

Part of the C4 Compute Optimized family — High-performance processors for compute-intensive applications.

Name:cCompute Optimized44th GenerationxlargeExtra Large (1x)

On-demand, Linux

$0.1990/ hr

~$145.27/mo · lowest in US East (N. Virginia), us-east-1

Savings Plan, Linux

$0.1020/ hr

From, with a 3-year Compute Savings Plan, No Upfront: −49% vs on-demand rate (us-east-1)

Per unit

$0.0498/ vCPU-hr

$0.0265/GB-hr

Compute

4vCPUs

2 cores • x86_64

Memory

8GB

1.9 GB / vCPU

Network

High

Baseline: 1.25 Gbps

Storage & EBS

93.75MB/s

Max: 6,000 IOPS

Alternatives to c4.xlarge

Option	Price vs c4.xlarge	Why look at it
c5.xlarge Compare →	-15%-$0.029/hr Linux on-demand, us-east-1	Newer generation, 8 GiB RAM instead of 7.5, same vCPU
c6i.xlarge Compare →	-15%-$0.029/hr Linux on-demand, us-east-1	Newer generation, 8 GiB RAM instead of 7.5, same vCPU
c7i.xlarge Compare →	-10%-$0.0205/hr Linux on-demand, us-east-1	Newer generation, 8 GiB RAM instead of 7.5, same vCPU
c7g.xlarge Compare →	-27%-$0.054/hr Linux on-demand, us-east-1	Graviton (arm64), newer generation, 8 GiB RAM instead of 7.5, same vCPU

On Google Cloud

The nearest Google Cloud machines to c4.xlarge by vCPU and memory, at On-demand Linux rates in Northern Virginia (us-east-1 ↔ us-east4).

Machine	Size	On-demand Linux	vs c4.xlarge
c4.xlargeThis page · AWS, us-east-1	4 vCPU · 7.5 GiB	$0.1990/hr	—
n4-highcpu-44 vCPU and 8 GiB for 4 vCPU and 7.5 GiB, the nearest size up; Intel on both	4 vCPU · 8 GiB	$0.15308/hr	23% less
c3-highcpu-44 vCPU and 8 GiB for 4 vCPU and 7.5 GiB, the nearest size up; Intel on both	4 vCPU · 8 GiB	$0.170104/hr	15% less
c4-highcpu-44 vCPU and 8 GiB for 4 vCPU and 7.5 GiB, the nearest size up; Intel on both	4 vCPU · 8 GiB	$0.170104/hr	15% 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 E5-2666 v3 (Haswell)

Architecturex86_64 (x86_64)

vCPUs / Threads4 vCPUs

Physical Cores2

Clock Speed2.9 GHz

Intel AVX / AVX2AVX & AVX2 Supported

Intel Turbo BoostYes

Bare MetalNo (Virtualized)

Performance & Benchmarks

CoreMark Score67,359

CoreMark / vCPU16,839.7 / core

FFmpeg Transcoding24 FPS

CoreMark per Dollar338,487 score / $

Cost per vCPU-hr$0.0498

Cost per GB-hr$0.0265

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 Bandwidth1.25 Gbps

Burst / Peak Bandwidth2.8 Gbps

Enhanced NetworkingYes

EFA SupportNo

IPv6 SupportNative Dual-Stack Supported

Storage & EBS Optimization

Storage ConfigurationEBS only

Local NVMe DiskNone (EBS only)

EBS Baseline Throughput93.75 MB/s

EBS Max Throughput93.75 MB/s

EBS Baseline IOPS6,000

EBS Max / Burst IOPS6,000

Dedicated EBS Throughput750 Mbps

Platform & Architecture Details

Hypervisor / SystemXen Hypervisor

Nitro EnclavesNot Supported

Normalization Factor8

Generation StatusCurrent Generation (Recommended)

Rates by region

Live on-demand rates across all global AWS cloud regions

Lowest Price Region

$0.1990/ hr

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

Highest Price Region

$0.3090/ hr

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

Global Fleet Average

$0.2328/ hr

Across all active regions

Regional Coverage

16regions

Available worldwide

Linux — Available in all 16 regions
Region	On-Demand Price	% vs On-Demand Rate
ap-south-1 Asia Pacific (Mumbai)	$0.2000
ap-northeast-3 Asia Pacific (Osaka)	$0.2520
ap-northeast-2 Asia Pacific (Seoul)	$0.2270
ap-southeast-1 Asia Pacific (Singapore)	$0.2310
ap-southeast-2 Asia Pacific (Sydney)	$0.2610
ap-northeast-1 Asia Pacific (Tokyo)	$0.2520
us-gov-west-1 AWS GovCloud (US-West)	$0.2390
ca-central-1 Canada (Central)	$0.2180
eu-central-1 EU (Frankfurt)	$0.2270
eu-west-1 EU (Ireland)	$0.2260
eu-west-2 EU (London)	$0.2370
sa-east-1 South America (Sao Paulo) Highest	$0.3090
us-east-1 US East (N. Virginia) Lowest	$0.1990
us-east-2 US East (Ohio) Lowest	$0.1990
us-west-1 US West (N. California)	$0.2490
us-west-2 US West (Oregon) Lowest	$0.1990

Windows — Available in all 16 regions
Region	On-Demand Price	% vs On-Demand Rate
ap-south-1 Asia Pacific (Mumbai)	$0.3840
ap-northeast-3 Asia Pacific (Osaka)	$0.4360
ap-northeast-2 Asia Pacific (Seoul)	$0.4110
ap-southeast-1 Asia Pacific (Singapore)	$0.4150
ap-southeast-2 Asia Pacific (Sydney)	$0.4450
ap-northeast-1 Asia Pacific (Tokyo)	$0.4360
us-gov-west-1 AWS GovCloud (US-West)	$0.4230
ca-central-1 Canada (Central)	$0.4020
eu-central-1 EU (Frankfurt)	$0.4110
eu-west-1 EU (Ireland)	$0.4100
eu-west-2 EU (London)	$0.4210
sa-east-1 South America (Sao Paulo) Highest	$0.4930
us-east-1 US East (N. Virginia) Lowest	$0.3830
us-east-2 US East (Ohio) Lowest	$0.3830
us-west-1 US West (N. California)	$0.4330
us-west-2 US West (Oregon) Lowest	$0.3830

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 c4.xlarge on Linux is 51% of the on-demand rate, so the instance has to run at least 51% 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.