AWS Amazon EC2

g5.xlarge

⚡ 1x GPU • 24 GB

Part of the G5 Accelerated Computing family — Hardware accelerators (GPUs, FPGAs) for specialized compute.

Name:gGPU Graphics & ML Inference55th GenerationxlargeExtra Large (1x)

On-demand, Linux

$1.0060/ hr

~$734.38/mo · lowest in US East (N. Virginia), us-east-1

Savings Plan, Linux

$0.54324/ hr

From, with a 3-year Compute Savings Plan, No Upfront: −46% vs on-demand rate (us-east-1)

Per unit

$0.2515/ vCPU-hr

$0.0629/GB-hr

Compute

4vCPUs

2 cores • x86_64

Memory

16GB

4.0 GB / vCPU

Network

Up to 10 Gbps

Baseline: 2.5 Gbps

Storage & EBS

437.5MB/s

Max: 15,000 IOPS

Alternatives to g5.xlarge

Option	Price vs g5.xlarge	Why look at it
g4dn.xlarge Compare →	-48%-$0.48/hr Linux on-demand, us-east-1	Intel (x86_64), previous generation, same vCPU and RAM
g6.xlarge Compare →	-20%-$0.201/hr Linux on-demand, us-east-1	Newer generation, same vCPU and RAM
inf2.xlarge Compare →	-25%-$0.248/hr Linux on-demand, us-east-1	Older generation, same vCPU and RAM

On Google Cloud

g5.xlarge is an accelerated machine. Those are compared by the accelerator, not by vCPU and memory, so this page doesn't pick a match. Browse Google Cloud machines.

Technical Specifications & Limits

Hardware specs, container thresholds, and system limits

Compute & Processor

ProcessorAMD EPYC 7R32

Architecturex86_64 (x86_64)

vCPUs / Threads4 vCPUs

Physical Cores2

Clock Speed2.8 GHz

Intel AVX / AVX2No

Intel Turbo BoostNo

Bare MetalNo (Virtualized)

Performance & Benchmarks

CoreMark Score69,634

CoreMark / vCPU17,408.5 / core

FFmpeg Transcoding115 FPS

CoreMark per Dollar69,219 score / $

Cost per vCPU-hr$0.2515

Cost per GB-hr$0.0629

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 (250 GB)

Local NVMe Disk250 GB NVMe SSD

EBS Baseline Throughput87.5 MB/s

EBS Max Throughput437.5 MB/s

EBS Baseline IOPS3,000

EBS Max / Burst IOPS15,000

Dedicated EBS ThroughputUp to 3500 Mbps

GPU & Hardware Acceleration

GPU ModelNVIDIA A10G

Accelerator Count1x GPU(s)

Total GPU Memory24.0 GB

Memory Architecture—

Acceleration RuntimesCUDA, TensorRT, cuDNN, PyTorch, PyJAX

Platform & Architecture Details

Hypervisor / SystemAWS Nitro System (PCIe Offload)

Nitro EnclavesSupported (Isolated security enclaves)

Normalization Factor1

Generation StatusCurrent Generation (Recommended)

Rates by region

Live on-demand rates across all global AWS cloud regions

Lowest Price Region

$1.0060/ hr

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

Highest Price Region

$1.7100/ hr

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

Global Fleet Average

$1.2363/ hr

Across all active regions

Regional Coverage

19regions

Available worldwide

Linux — Available in all 19 regions
Region	On-Demand Price	% vs On-Demand Rate
ap-east-1 Asia Pacific (Hong Kong)	$1.5488
ap-southeast-3 Asia Pacific (Jakarta)	$1.4080
ap-south-1 Asia Pacific (Mumbai)	$1.2080
ap-northeast-2 Asia Pacific (Seoul)	$1.2370
ap-southeast-2 Asia Pacific (Sydney)	$1.3080
ap-northeast-1 Asia Pacific (Tokyo)	$1.4590
ca-central-1 Canada (Central)	$1.1170
eu-central-1 EU (Frankfurt)	$1.2580
eu-west-1 EU (Ireland)	$1.1230
eu-west-2 EU (London)	$1.2770
eu-west-3 EU (Paris)	$1.2770
eu-north-1 EU (Stockholm)	$1.0670
eu-south-2 Europe (Spain)	$1.0600
il-central-1 Israel (Tel Aviv)	$1.1791
me-central-1 Middle East (UAE)	$1.2340
sa-east-1 South America (Sao Paulo) Highest	$1.7100
us-east-1 US East (N. Virginia) Lowest	$1.0060
us-east-2 US East (Ohio) Lowest	$1.0060
us-west-2 US West (Oregon) Lowest	$1.0060

Windows — Available in all 19 regions
Region	On-Demand Price	% vs On-Demand Rate
ap-east-1 Asia Pacific (Hong Kong)	$1.7328
ap-southeast-3 Asia Pacific (Jakarta)	$1.5920
ap-south-1 Asia Pacific (Mumbai)	$1.3920
ap-northeast-2 Asia Pacific (Seoul)	$1.4210
ap-southeast-2 Asia Pacific (Sydney)	$1.4920
ap-northeast-1 Asia Pacific (Tokyo)	$1.6430
ca-central-1 Canada (Central)	$1.3010
eu-central-1 EU (Frankfurt)	$1.4420
eu-west-1 EU (Ireland)	$1.3070
eu-west-2 EU (London)	$1.4610
eu-west-3 EU (Paris)	$1.4610
eu-north-1 EU (Stockholm)	$1.2510
eu-south-2 Europe (Spain)	$1.2440
il-central-1 Israel (Tel Aviv)	$1.3632
me-central-1 Middle East (UAE)	$1.4180
sa-east-1 South America (Sao Paulo) Highest	$1.8940
us-east-1 US East (N. Virginia) Lowest	$1.1900
us-east-2 US East (Ohio) Lowest	$1.1900
us-west-2 US West (Oregon) Lowest	$1.1900

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 g5.xlarge on Linux is 54% of the on-demand rate, so the instance has to run at least 54% 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.