AWS Amazon EC2

c7a.medium

Part of the C7A Compute Optimized family — High-performance processors for compute-intensive applications.

Name:cCompute Optimized77th GenerationaAMD EPYCmediumMedium

On-demand, Linux

$0.0513/ hr

~$37.46/mo · lowest in US East (N. Virginia), us-east-1

Savings Plan, Linux

$0.02478/ hr

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

Per unit

$0.0513/ vCPU-hr

$0.0257/GB-hr

Compute

1vCPUs

1 cores • x86_64

Memory

2GB

2.0 GB / vCPU

Network

Up to 12.5 Gbps

Baseline: 0.39 Gbps

Storage & EBS

1,250MB/s

Max: 40,000 IOPS

Alternatives to c7a.medium

Option	Price vs c7a.medium	Why look at it
c7g.medium Compare →	-29%-$0.015/hr Linux on-demand, us-east-1	Graviton (arm64), same vCPU and RAM

On Google Cloud

The nearest Google Cloud machines to c7a.medium by vCPU and memory, at On-demand Linux rates in Northern Virginia (us-east-1 ↔ us-east4).

Machine	Size	On-demand Linux	vs c7a.medium
c7a.mediumThis page · AWS, us-east-1	1 vCPU · 2 GiB	$0.05132/hr	—
n4a-highcpu-1same 1 vCPU and 2 GiB; AMD (x86_64) vs Arm (arm64)	1 vCPU · 2 GiB	$0.03248/hr	37% less
c4a-highcpu-1same 1 vCPU and 2 GiB; AMD (x86_64) vs Arm (arm64)	1 vCPU · 2 GiB	$0.03788/hr	26% 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 9R14 Processor

Architecturex86_64 (x86_64)

vCPUs / Threads1 vCPUs

Physical Cores1

Clock SpeedUp to 3.7 GHz

Intel AVX / AVX2No

Intel Turbo BoostNo

Bare MetalNo (Virtualized)

Performance & Benchmarks

CoreMark Score32,965

CoreMark / vCPU32,965.2 / core

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CoreMark per Dollar642,342 score / $

Cost per vCPU-hr$0.0513

Cost per GB-hr$0.0257

Containers & Kubernetes

EKS Max Pods8 pods

Max ENIs2

IPv4/v6 per ENI4

Total Addressable IPs8 total IPs

CNI Prefix DelegationSupported (High Density)

Networking & Bandwidth

Network PerformanceUp to 12.5 Gbps

Baseline Bandwidth0.39 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 Throughput40.625 MB/s

EBS Max Throughput1250 MB/s

EBS Baseline IOPS2,500

EBS Max / Burst IOPS40,000

Dedicated EBS ThroughputUp to 10000 Mbps

Platform & Architecture Details

Hypervisor / SystemAWS Nitro System (PCIe Offload)

Nitro EnclavesNot Supported

Normalization Factor2

Generation StatusCurrent Generation (Recommended)

Rates by region

Live on-demand rates across all global AWS cloud regions

Lowest Price Region

$0.0513/ hr

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

Highest Price Region

$0.0646/ hr

Asia Pacific (Tokyo) (ap-northeast-1)

Global Fleet Average

$0.0569/ hr

Across all active regions

Regional Coverage

11regions

Available worldwide

Linux — Available in all 11 regions
Region	On-Demand Price	% vs On-Demand Rate
ap-southeast-1 Asia Pacific (Singapore)	$0.0592
ap-northeast-1 Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Highest	$0.0646
eu-central-1 EU (Frankfurt)	$0.0586
eu-west-1 EU (Ireland)	$0.0551
eu-west-2 EU (London)	$0.0610
eu-north-1 EU (Stockholm)	$0.0549
eu-south-2 Europe (Spain)	$0.0551
us-east-1 US East (N. Virginia) Lowest	$0.0513
us-east-2 US East (Ohio) Lowest	$0.0513
us-west-1 US West (N. California)	$0.0640
us-west-2 US West (Oregon) Lowest	$0.0513

Windows — Available in all 11 regions
Region	On-Demand Price	% vs On-Demand Rate
ap-southeast-1 Asia Pacific (Singapore)	$0.1052
ap-northeast-1 Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Highest	$0.1106
eu-central-1 EU (Frankfurt)	$0.1046
eu-west-1 EU (Ireland)	$0.1011
eu-west-2 EU (London)	$0.1070
eu-north-1 EU (Stockholm)	$0.1009
eu-south-2 Europe (Spain)	$0.1011
us-east-1 US East (N. Virginia) Lowest	$0.0973
us-east-2 US East (Ohio) Lowest	$0.0973
us-west-1 US West (N. California)	$0.1100
us-west-2 US West (Oregon) Lowest	$0.0973

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 c7a.medium 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.