AWS Amazon EC2

c5.4xlarge

Part of the C5 Compute Optimized family — High-performance processors for compute-intensive applications.

Name:cCompute Optimized55th Generation4xlarge4 Extra Large

On-demand, Linux

$0.6800/ hr

~$496.40/mo · lowest in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), ap-south-2

Savings Plan, Linux

$0.3280/ hr

From, with a 3-year Compute Savings Plan, No Upfront: −52% vs on-demand rate (us-east-1)

Per unit

$0.0425/ vCPU-hr

$0.0213/GB-hr

Compute

16vCPUs

8 cores • x86_64

Memory

32GB

2.0 GB / vCPU

Network

Up to 10 Gbps

Baseline: 5 Gbps

Storage & EBS

593.75MB/s

Max: 20,000 IOPS

Alternatives to c5.4xlarge

Option	Price vs c5.4xlarge	Why look at it
c4.4xlarge Compare →	+17%+$0.116/hr Linux on-demand, us-east-1	Previous generation, 30 GiB RAM instead of 32, same vCPU
c6i.4xlarge Compare →	same price Linux on-demand, us-east-1	Newer generation, same vCPU and RAM
c7i.4xlarge Compare →	+5%+$0.034/hr Linux on-demand, us-east-1	Newer generation, same vCPU and RAM
c7g.4xlarge Compare →	-15%-$0.10/hr Linux on-demand, us-east-1	Graviton (arm64), newer generation, same vCPU and RAM

On Google Cloud

The nearest Google Cloud machines to c5.4xlarge by vCPU and memory, at On-demand Linux rates in Northern Virginia (us-east-1 ↔ us-east4).

Machine	Size	On-demand Linux	vs c5.4xlarge
c5.4xlargeThis page · AWS, us-east-1	16 vCPU · 32 GiB	$0.6800/hr	—
n4-highcpu-16same 16 vCPU and 32 GiB; Intel on both	16 vCPU · 32 GiB	$0.61232/hr	10.0% less
c4-highcpu-16same 16 vCPU and 32 GiB; Intel on both	16 vCPU · 32 GiB	$0.680416/hr	0.1% more
n4d-highcpu-16same 16 vCPU and 32 GiB; Intel vs AMD	16 vCPU · 32 GiB	$0.57168/hr	16% 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 Platinum 8124M

Architecturex86_64 (x86_64)

vCPUs / Threads16 vCPUs

Physical Cores8

Clock Speed3.4 GHz

Intel AVX / AVX2AVX & AVX2 Supported

Intel Turbo BoostYes

Bare MetalNo (Virtualized)

Performance & Benchmarks

CoreMark Score262,070

CoreMark / vCPU16,379.3 / core

FFmpeg Transcoding87 FPS

CoreMark per Dollar385,397 score / $

Cost per vCPU-hr$0.0425

Cost per GB-hr$0.0213

Containers & Kubernetes

EKS Max Pods234 pods

Max ENIs8

IPv4/v6 per ENI30

Total Addressable IPs240 total IPs

CNI Prefix DelegationSupported (High Density)

Networking & Bandwidth

Network PerformanceUp to 10 Gbps

Baseline Bandwidth5 Gbps

Burst / Peak Bandwidth10 Gbps

Enhanced NetworkingYes

EFA SupportNo

IPv6 SupportNative Dual-Stack Supported

Storage & EBS Optimization

Storage ConfigurationEBS only

Local NVMe DiskNone (EBS only)

EBS Baseline Throughput593.75 MB/s

EBS Max Throughput593.75 MB/s

EBS Baseline IOPS20,000

EBS Max / Burst IOPS20,000

Dedicated EBS ThroughputUp to 2250 Mbps

Platform & Architecture Details

Hypervisor / SystemAWS Nitro System (PCIe Offload)

Nitro EnclavesSupported (Isolated security enclaves)

Normalization Factor32

Generation StatusCurrent Generation (Recommended)

Rates by region

Live on-demand rates across all global AWS cloud regions

Lowest Price Region

$0.6800/ hr

Asia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)

Highest Price Region

$1.2050/ hr

Argentina (Buenos Aires) (us-east-1-bue-1)

Global Fleet Average

$0.8423/ hr

Across all active regions

Regional Coverage

41regions

Available worldwide

Linux — Available in all 41 regions
Region	On-Demand Price	% vs On-Demand Rate
af-south-1 Africa (Cape Town)	$0.9120
us-east-1-bue-1 Argentina (Buenos Aires) Highest	$1.2050
ap-east-1 Asia Pacific (Hong Kong)	$0.8640
ap-south-2 Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Lowest	$0.6800
ap-southeast-3 Asia Pacific (Jakarta)	$0.7840
ap-southeast-4 Asia Pacific (Melbourne)	$0.8880
ap-south-1 Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Lowest	$0.6800
ap-northeast-3 Asia Pacific (Osaka)	$0.8560
ap-northeast-2 Asia Pacific (Seoul)	$0.7680
ap-southeast-1 Asia Pacific (Singapore)	$0.7840
ap-southeast-2 Asia Pacific (Sydney)	$0.8880
ap-northeast-1 Asia Pacific (Tokyo)	$0.8560
us-gov-east-1 AWS GovCloud (US-East)	$0.8160
us-gov-west-1 AWS GovCloud (US-West)	$0.8160
ca-central-1 Canada (Central)	$0.7440
ca-west-1 Canada West (Calgary)	$0.7440
us-east-1-scl-1 Chile (Santiago)	$1.1000
eu-central-1 EU (Frankfurt)	$0.7760
eu-west-1 EU (Ireland)	$0.7680
eu-west-2 EU (London)	$0.8080
eu-south-1 EU (Milan)	$0.8080
eu-west-3 EU (Paris)	$0.8080
eu-north-1 EU (Stockholm)	$0.7280
eu-south-2 Europe (Spain)	$0.7680
eu-central-2 Europe (Zurich)	$0.8540
ap-south-1-ccu-1 India (Kolkata)	$0.9180
il-central-1 Israel (Tel Aviv)	$0.8060
us-east-1-qro-1 Mexico (Queretaro)	$0.9180
me-south-1 Middle East (Bahrain)	$0.8450
me-central-1 Middle East (UAE)	$0.8450
eu-west-3-wl1-cmn1 Morocco (Casablanca)	$0.9220
ap-southeast-1-mnl-1 Philippines (Manila)	$0.9410
eu-central-1-waw-1 Poland (Warsaw)	$0.8920
eu-west-3-wl1-dss1 Senegal (Dakar)	$0.9220
sa-east-1 South America (Sao Paulo)	$1.0480
ap-northeast-1-tpe-1 Taiwan (Taipei)	$1.0700
us-east-1 US East (N. Virginia) Lowest	$0.6800
us-east-2 US East (Ohio) Lowest	$0.6800
us-west-2-lax-1 US West (Los Angeles)	$0.8160
us-west-1 US West (N. California)	$0.8480
us-west-2 US West (Oregon) Lowest	$0.6800

Windows — Available in all 41 regions
Region	On-Demand Price	% vs On-Demand Rate
af-south-1 Africa (Cape Town)	$1.6480
us-east-1-bue-1 Argentina (Buenos Aires) Highest	$1.9410
ap-east-1 Asia Pacific (Hong Kong)	$1.6000
ap-south-2 Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Lowest	$1.4160
ap-southeast-3 Asia Pacific (Jakarta)	$1.5200
ap-southeast-4 Asia Pacific (Melbourne)	$1.6240
ap-south-1 Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Lowest	$1.4160
ap-northeast-3 Asia Pacific (Osaka)	$1.5920
ap-northeast-2 Asia Pacific (Seoul)	$1.5040
ap-southeast-1 Asia Pacific (Singapore)	$1.5200
ap-southeast-2 Asia Pacific (Sydney)	$1.6240
ap-northeast-1 Asia Pacific (Tokyo)	$1.5920
us-gov-east-1 AWS GovCloud (US-East)	$1.5520
us-gov-west-1 AWS GovCloud (US-West)	$1.5520
ca-central-1 Canada (Central)	$1.4800
ca-west-1 Canada West (Calgary)	$1.4800
us-east-1-scl-1 Chile (Santiago)	$1.8360
eu-central-1 EU (Frankfurt)	$1.5120
eu-west-1 EU (Ireland)	$1.5040
eu-west-2 EU (London)	$1.5440
eu-south-1 EU (Milan)	$1.5440
eu-west-3 EU (Paris)	$1.5440
eu-north-1 EU (Stockholm)	$1.4640
eu-south-2 Europe (Spain)	$1.5040
eu-central-2 Europe (Zurich)	$1.5900
ap-south-1-ccu-1 India (Kolkata)	$1.6540
il-central-1 Israel (Tel Aviv)	$1.5420
us-east-1-qro-1 Mexico (Queretaro)	$1.6540
me-south-1 Middle East (Bahrain)	$1.5810
me-central-1 Middle East (UAE)	$1.5810
eu-west-3-wl1-cmn1 Morocco (Casablanca)	$1.6580
ap-southeast-1-mnl-1 Philippines (Manila)	$1.6770
eu-central-1-waw-1 Poland (Warsaw)	$1.6280
eu-west-3-wl1-dss1 Senegal (Dakar)	$1.6580
sa-east-1 South America (Sao Paulo)	$1.7840
ap-northeast-1-tpe-1 Taiwan (Taipei)	$1.8060
us-east-1 US East (N. Virginia) Lowest	$1.4160
us-east-2 US East (Ohio) Lowest	$1.4160
us-west-2-lax-1 US West (Los Angeles)	$1.5520
us-west-1 US West (N. California)	$1.5840
us-west-2 US West (Oregon) Lowest	$1.4160

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 c5.4xlarge on Linux is 48% of the on-demand rate, so the instance has to run at least 48% 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.