AWS Amazon EC2

c6a.xlarge

Part of the C6A Compute Optimized family — High-performance processors for compute-intensive applications.

Name:cCompute Optimized66th GenerationaAMD EPYCxlargeExtra Large (1x)

On-demand, Linux

$0.0935/ hr

~$68.26/mo · lowest in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), ap-south-2

Savings Plan, Linux

$0.04854/ hr

From, with a 3-year Compute Savings Plan, No Upfront: −48% vs on-demand rate (ap-south-2)

Per unit

$0.0234/ vCPU-hr

$0.0117/GB-hr

Compute

4vCPUs

2 cores • x86_64

Memory

8GB

2.0 GB / vCPU

Network

Up to 12.5 Gbps

Baseline: 1.562 Gbps

Storage & EBS

1,250MB/s

Max: 40,000 IOPS

Alternatives to c6a.xlarge

Option	Price vs c6a.xlarge	Why look at it
c6i.xlarge Compare →	+11%+$0.017/hr Linux on-demand, us-east-1	Intel (x86_64), same vCPU and RAM
c6g.xlarge Compare →	-11%-$0.017/hr Linux on-demand, us-east-1	Graviton (arm64), same vCPU and RAM

On Google Cloud

The nearest Google Cloud machines to c6a.xlarge by vCPU and memory, at On-demand Linux rates in Northern Virginia (us-east-1 ↔ us-east4).

Machine	Size	On-demand Linux	vs c6a.xlarge
c6a.xlargeThis page · AWS, us-east-1	4 vCPU · 8 GiB	$0.1530/hr	—
n4d-highcpu-4same 4 vCPU and 8 GiB; AMD on both	4 vCPU · 8 GiB	$0.14292/hr	6.6% less
c3d-highcpu-4same 4 vCPU and 8 GiB; AMD on both	4 vCPU · 8 GiB	$0.149924/hr	2.0% less
c2d-highcpu-4same 4 vCPU and 8 GiB; AMD on both	4 vCPU · 8 GiB	$0.168848/hr	10% more

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 7R13 Processor

Architecturex86_64 (x86_64)

vCPUs / Threads4 vCPUs

Physical Cores2

Clock Speed3.6 GHz

Intel AVX / AVX2No

Intel Turbo BoostNo

Bare MetalNo (Virtualized)

Performance & Benchmarks

CoreMark Score86,157

CoreMark / vCPU21,539.3 / core

FFmpeg Transcoding34 FPS

CoreMark per Dollar921,465 score / $

Cost per vCPU-hr$0.0234

Cost per GB-hr$0.0117

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 12.5 Gbps

Baseline Bandwidth1.562 Gbps

Burst / Peak Bandwidth12.5 Gbps

Enhanced NetworkingYes

EFA SupportNo

IPv6 SupportNative Dual-Stack Supported

Storage & EBS Optimization

Storage ConfigurationEBS only

Local NVMe DiskNone (EBS only)

EBS Baseline Throughput156.25 MB/s

EBS Max Throughput1250 MB/s

EBS Baseline IOPS6,000

EBS Max / Burst IOPS40,000

Dedicated EBS ThroughputUp to 6667 Mbps

Platform & Architecture Details

Hypervisor / SystemAWS Nitro System (PCIe Offload)

Nitro EnclavesSupported (Isolated security enclaves)

Normalization Factor8

Generation StatusCurrent Generation (Recommended)

Rates by region

Live on-demand rates across all global AWS cloud regions

Lowest Price Region

$0.0935/ hr

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

Highest Price Region

$0.2358/ hr

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

Global Fleet Average

$0.1683/ hr

Across all active regions

Regional Coverage

15regions

Available worldwide

Linux — Available in all 15 regions
Region	On-Demand Price	% vs On-Demand Rate
ap-east-1 Asia Pacific (Hong Kong)	$0.1944
ap-south-2 Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Lowest	$0.0935
ap-south-1 Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Lowest	$0.0935
ap-southeast-1 Asia Pacific (Singapore)	$0.1764
ap-southeast-2 Asia Pacific (Sydney)	$0.1998
ap-northeast-1 Asia Pacific (Tokyo)	$0.1926
ca-central-1 Canada (Central)	$0.1674
eu-central-1 EU (Frankfurt)	$0.1746
eu-west-1 EU (Ireland)	$0.1642
eu-west-2 EU (London)	$0.1818
sa-east-1 South America (Sao Paulo) Highest	$0.2358
us-east-1 US East (N. Virginia)	$0.1530
us-east-2 US East (Ohio)	$0.1530
us-west-1 US West (N. California)	$0.1908
us-west-2 US West (Oregon)	$0.1530

Windows — Available in all 15 regions
Region	On-Demand Price	% vs On-Demand Rate
ap-east-1 Asia Pacific (Hong Kong)	$0.3784
ap-south-2 Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Lowest	$0.2775
ap-south-1 Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Lowest	$0.2775
ap-southeast-1 Asia Pacific (Singapore)	$0.3604
ap-southeast-2 Asia Pacific (Sydney)	$0.3838
ap-northeast-1 Asia Pacific (Tokyo)	$0.3766
ca-central-1 Canada (Central)	$0.3514
eu-central-1 EU (Frankfurt)	$0.3586
eu-west-1 EU (Ireland)	$0.3482
eu-west-2 EU (London)	$0.3658
sa-east-1 South America (Sao Paulo) Highest	$0.4198
us-east-1 US East (N. Virginia)	$0.3370
us-east-2 US East (Ohio)	$0.3370
us-west-1 US West (N. California)	$0.3748
us-west-2 US West (Oregon)	$0.3370

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 Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) (ap-south-2), the 3-year Compute Savings Plan rate (No Upfront) for c6a.xlarge on Linux is 52% of the on-demand rate, so the instance has to run at least 52% 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.