AWS Amazon EC2

c5ad.2xlarge

Part of the C5AD Compute Optimized family — High-performance processors for compute-intensive applications.

Name:cCompute Optimized55th GenerationaAMD EPYCdDirect-Attached NVMe SSD2xlarge2 Extra Large

On-demand, Linux

$0.3440/ hr

~$251.12/mo · lowest in US East (N. Virginia), us-east-1

Savings Plan, Linux

$0.1660/ hr

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

Per unit

$0.0430/ vCPU-hr

$0.0215/GB-hr

Compute

8vCPUs

4 cores • x86_64

Memory

16GB

2.0 GB / vCPU

Network

Up to 10 Gbps

Baseline: 2.5 Gbps

Storage & EBS

396.25MB/s

Max: 13,300 IOPS

On Google Cloud

The nearest Google Cloud machines to c5ad.2xlarge by vCPU and memory, at On-demand Linux rates in Northern Virginia (us-east-1 ↔ us-east4).

Machine	Size	On-demand Linux	vs c5ad.2xlarge
c5ad.2xlargeThis page · AWS, us-east-1	8 vCPU · 16 GiB	$0.3440/hr	—
n4d-highcpu-8same 8 vCPU and 16 GiB; AMD on both; local disk on c5ad.2xlarge only	8 vCPU · 16 GiB	$0.28584/hr	17% less
c3d-highcpu-8same 8 vCPU and 16 GiB; AMD on both; local disk on c5ad.2xlarge only	8 vCPU · 16 GiB	$0.299848/hr	13% less
c2d-highcpu-8same 8 vCPU and 16 GiB; AMD on both; local disk on c5ad.2xlarge only	8 vCPU · 16 GiB	$0.337696/hr	1.8% 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

ProcessorAMD EPYC 7R32

Architecturex86_64 (x86_64)

vCPUs / Threads8 vCPUs

Physical Cores4

Clock Speed3.3 GHz

Intel AVX / AVX2No

Intel Turbo BoostNo

Bare MetalNo (Virtualized)

Performance & Benchmarks

CoreMark Score145,349

CoreMark / vCPU18,168.6 / core

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CoreMark per Dollar422,526 score / $

Cost per vCPU-hr$0.0430

Cost per GB-hr$0.0215

Containers & Kubernetes

EKS Max Pods58 pods

Max ENIs4

IPv4/v6 per ENI15

Total Addressable IPs60 total IPs

CNI Prefix DelegationSupported (High Density)

Networking & Bandwidth

Network PerformanceUp to 10 Gbps

Baseline Bandwidth2.5 Gbps

Burst / Peak Bandwidth10 Gbps

Enhanced NetworkingYes

EFA SupportNo

IPv6 SupportNative Dual-Stack Supported

Storage & EBS Optimization

Storage ConfigurationNVMe SSD (300 GB)

Local NVMe Disk300 GB NVMe SSD

EBS Baseline Throughput100 MB/s

EBS Max Throughput396.25 MB/s

EBS Baseline IOPS3,200

EBS Max / Burst IOPS13,300

Dedicated EBS ThroughputUp to 3170 Mbps

Platform & Architecture Details

Hypervisor / SystemAWS Nitro System (PCIe Offload)

Nitro EnclavesSupported (Isolated security enclaves)

Normalization Factor16

Generation StatusCurrent Generation (Recommended)

Rates by region

Live on-demand rates across all global AWS cloud regions

Lowest Price Region

$0.3440/ hr

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

Highest Price Region

$0.5360/ hr

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

Global Fleet Average

$0.4116/ hr

Across all active regions

Regional Coverage

11regions

Available worldwide

Linux — Available in all 11 regions
Region	On-Demand Price	% vs On-Demand Rate
af-south-1 Africa (Cape Town)	$0.4680
ap-southeast-1 Asia Pacific (Singapore)	$0.4040
ap-southeast-2 Asia Pacific (Sydney)	$0.4520
eu-central-1 EU (Frankfurt)	$0.4000
eu-west-1 EU (Ireland)	$0.3920
eu-south-1 EU (Milan)	$0.4120
me-south-1 Middle East (Bahrain)	$0.4320
sa-east-1 South America (Sao Paulo) Highest	$0.5360
us-east-1 US East (N. Virginia) Lowest	$0.3440
us-east-2 US East (Ohio) Lowest	$0.3440
us-west-2 US West (Oregon) Lowest	$0.3440

Windows — Available in all 11 regions
Region	On-Demand Price	% vs On-Demand Rate
af-south-1 Africa (Cape Town)	$0.8360
ap-southeast-1 Asia Pacific (Singapore)	$0.7720
ap-southeast-2 Asia Pacific (Sydney)	$0.8200
eu-central-1 EU (Frankfurt)	$0.7680
eu-west-1 EU (Ireland)	$0.7600
eu-south-1 EU (Milan)	$0.7800
me-south-1 Middle East (Bahrain)	$0.8000
sa-east-1 South America (Sao Paulo) Highest	$0.9040
us-east-1 US East (N. Virginia) Lowest	$0.7120
us-east-2 US East (Ohio) Lowest	$0.7120
us-west-2 US West (Oregon) Lowest	$0.7120

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 c5ad.2xlarge 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.