AWS Amazon EC2

r5.xlarge

Part of the R5 Memory Optimized family — High memory-to-vCPU ratio for memory-intensive applications.

Name:rMemory Optimized55th GenerationxlargeExtra Large (1x)

On-demand, Linux

$0.2520/ hr

~$183.96/mo · lowest in US East (N. Virginia), us-east-1

Savings Plan, Linux

$0.1310/ hr

From, with a 3-year Compute Savings Plan, No Upfront: −48% vs on-demand rate (us-east-1)

Per unit

$0.0630/ vCPU-hr

$0.0079/GB-hr

Compute

4vCPUs

2 cores • x86_64

Memory

32GB

8.0 GB / vCPU

Network

Up to 10 Gbps

Baseline: 1.25 Gbps

Storage & EBS

593.75MB/s

Max: 18,750 IOPS

Alternatives to r5.xlarge

Option	Price vs r5.xlarge	Why look at it
r4.xlarge Compare →	+6%+$0.014/hr Linux on-demand, us-east-1	Previous generation, 30.5 GiB RAM instead of 32, same vCPU
r6i.xlarge Compare →	same price Linux on-demand, us-east-1	Newer generation, same vCPU and RAM
r7i.xlarge Compare →	+5%+$0.0126/hr Linux on-demand, us-east-1	Newer generation, same vCPU and RAM
r7g.xlarge Compare →	-15%-$0.0378/hr Linux on-demand, us-east-1	Graviton (arm64), newer generation, same vCPU and RAM

On Google Cloud

The nearest Google Cloud machines to r5.xlarge by vCPU and memory, at On-demand Linux rates in Northern Virginia (us-east-1 ↔ us-east4).

Machine	Size	On-demand Linux	vs r5.xlarge
r5.xlargeThis page · AWS, us-east-1	4 vCPU · 32 GiB	$0.2520/hr	—
n4-highmem-4same 4 vCPU and 32 GiB; Intel on both	4 vCPU · 32 GiB	$0.23804/hr	5.5% less
c3-highmem-4same 4 vCPU and 32 GiB; Intel on both	4 vCPU · 32 GiB	$0.264616/hr	5.0% more
n2-highmem-4same 4 vCPU and 32 GiB; Intel on both	4 vCPU · 32 GiB	$0.295092/hr	17% 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

ProcessorIntel Xeon Platinum 8175

Architecturex86_64 (x86_64)

vCPUs / Threads4 vCPUs

Physical Cores2

Clock Speed3.1 GHz

Intel AVX / AVX2AVX & AVX2 Supported

Intel Turbo BoostYes

Bare MetalNo (Virtualized)

Performance & Benchmarks

CoreMark Score58,306

CoreMark / vCPU14,576.6 / core

FFmpeg Transcoding20 FPS

CoreMark per Dollar231,373 score / $

Cost per vCPU-hr$0.0630

Cost per GB-hr$0.0079

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 Bandwidth1.25 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 Throughput143.75 MB/s

EBS Max Throughput593.75 MB/s

EBS Baseline IOPS6,000

EBS Max / Burst IOPS18,750

Dedicated EBS ThroughputUp to 4750 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

$0.2520/ hr

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

Highest Price Region

$0.5030/ hr

Peru (Lima) (us-east-1-lim-1)

Global Fleet Average

$0.3102/ hr

Across all active regions

Regional Coverage

35regions

Available worldwide

Linux — Available in all 35 regions
Region	On-Demand Price	% vs On-Demand Rate
af-south-1 Africa (Cape Town)	$0.3360
us-east-1-bue-1 Argentina (Buenos Aires)	$0.4620
ap-east-1 Asia Pacific (Hong Kong)	$0.3340
ap-south-2 Asia Pacific (Hyderabad)	$0.2600
ap-southeast-3 Asia Pacific (Jakarta)	$0.3040
ap-southeast-4 Asia Pacific (Melbourne)	$0.3020
ap-south-1 Asia Pacific (Mumbai)	$0.2600
ap-northeast-3 Asia Pacific (Osaka)	$0.3040
ap-northeast-2 Asia Pacific (Seoul)	$0.3040
ap-southeast-1 Asia Pacific (Singapore)	$0.3040
ap-southeast-2 Asia Pacific (Sydney)	$0.3020
ap-northeast-1 Asia Pacific (Tokyo)	$0.3040
ap-southeast-2-per-1 Australia (Perth)	$0.4080
us-gov-east-1 AWS GovCloud (US-East)	$0.3020
us-gov-west-1 AWS GovCloud (US-West)	$0.3020
ca-central-1 Canada (Central)	$0.2760
ca-west-1 Canada West (Calgary)	$0.2760
eu-central-1 EU (Frankfurt)	$0.3040
eu-west-1 EU (Ireland)	$0.2820
eu-west-2 EU (London)	$0.2960
eu-south-1 EU (Milan)	$0.2960
eu-west-3 EU (Paris)	$0.2960
eu-north-1 EU (Stockholm)	$0.2680
eu-south-2 Europe (Spain)	$0.2820
eu-central-2 Europe (Zurich)	$0.3340
il-central-1 Israel (Tel Aviv)	$0.2960
me-south-1 Middle East (Bahrain)	$0.3100
me-central-1 Middle East (UAE)	$0.3100
us-east-1-lim-1 Peru (Lima) Highest	$0.5030
sa-east-1 South America (Sao Paulo)	$0.4020
us-east-1 US East (N. Virginia) Lowest	$0.2520
us-east-2 US East (Ohio) Lowest	$0.2520
us-west-2-lax-1 US West (Los Angeles)	$0.3020
us-west-1 US West (N. California)	$0.2800
us-west-2 US West (Oregon) Lowest	$0.2520

Windows — Available in all 35 regions
Region	On-Demand Price	% vs On-Demand Rate
af-south-1 Africa (Cape Town)	$0.5200
us-east-1-bue-1 Argentina (Buenos Aires)	$0.6460
ap-east-1 Asia Pacific (Hong Kong)	$0.5180
ap-south-2 Asia Pacific (Hyderabad)	$0.4440
ap-southeast-3 Asia Pacific (Jakarta)	$0.4880
ap-southeast-4 Asia Pacific (Melbourne)	$0.4860
ap-south-1 Asia Pacific (Mumbai)	$0.4440
ap-northeast-3 Asia Pacific (Osaka)	$0.4880
ap-northeast-2 Asia Pacific (Seoul)	$0.4880
ap-southeast-1 Asia Pacific (Singapore)	$0.4880
ap-southeast-2 Asia Pacific (Sydney)	$0.4860
ap-northeast-1 Asia Pacific (Tokyo)	$0.4880
ap-southeast-2-per-1 Australia (Perth)	$0.5920
us-gov-east-1 AWS GovCloud (US-East)	$0.4860
us-gov-west-1 AWS GovCloud (US-West)	$0.4860
ca-central-1 Canada (Central)	$0.4600
ca-west-1 Canada West (Calgary)	$0.4600
eu-central-1 EU (Frankfurt)	$0.4880
eu-west-1 EU (Ireland)	$0.4660
eu-west-2 EU (London)	$0.4800
eu-south-1 EU (Milan)	$0.4800
eu-west-3 EU (Paris)	$0.4800
eu-north-1 EU (Stockholm)	$0.4520
eu-south-2 Europe (Spain)	$0.4660
eu-central-2 Europe (Zurich)	$0.5180
il-central-1 Israel (Tel Aviv)	$0.4800
me-south-1 Middle East (Bahrain)	$0.4940
me-central-1 Middle East (UAE)	$0.4940
us-east-1-lim-1 Peru (Lima) Highest	$0.6870
sa-east-1 South America (Sao Paulo)	$0.5860
us-east-1 US East (N. Virginia) Lowest	$0.4360
us-east-2 US East (Ohio) Lowest	$0.4360
us-west-2-lax-1 US West (Los Angeles)	$0.4860
us-west-1 US West (N. California)	$0.4640
us-west-2 US West (Oregon) Lowest	$0.4360

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 r5.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.