c1.medium

c1.medium is an AWS EC2 instance with 2 vCPUs, 1.7 GiB memory (Intel Xeon Family). In US East (N. Virginia) it costs $0.13 per hour on demand ($94.90 per month) for Linux; a 1-year reserved instance with no upfront costs $0.091 per hour, 30% less. Spot capacity is about $0.0201 per hour. It is sold in 9 regions.

Prices by region

USD per hour, Linux. Reserved prices are no upfront, standard. Cheapest on-demand first.

Region	On-demand	Spot	1-yr reserved	1-yr savings plan	3-yr savings plan
US East (N. Virginia) us-east-1	$0.13	$0.0201	$0.091	$0.105	$0.065
US West (Oregon) us-west-2	$0.13	$0.0293	$0.091	$0.105	$0.065
EU (Ireland) eu-west-1	$0.148	$0.0369	$0.111	$0.128	$0.084
US West (N. California) us-west-1	$0.148	$0.0164	$0.111	$0.128	$0.084
AWS GovCloud (US-West) us-gov-west-1	$0.157	–	$0.108	$0.124	$0.08
Asia Pacific (Tokyo) ap-northeast-1	$0.158	$0.04	$0.12	$0.138	$0.094
Asia Pacific (Singapore) ap-southeast-1	$0.164	$0.0582	$0.122	$0.14	$0.093
Asia Pacific (Sydney) ap-southeast-2	$0.164	$0.0239	$0.122	$0.14	$0.093
South America (Sao Paulo) sa-east-1	$0.179	$0.0179	$0.13	$0.15	$0.1

Reserved and Savings Plans Spot prices by region Windows prices by region

Prices by operating system in US East (N. Virginia)

Operating system	On-demand /hr	1-yr reserved /hr	3-yr reserved /hr
Linux	$0.13	$0.091	–
RHEL	$0.16	$0.12	–
Windows	$0.21	$0.179	–
SUSE	$0.23	$0.127	–
Windows SQL Web	$0.31	$0.215	–

Specs

Compute	Value
vCPUs	2
Physical cores	2
Threads per core	1
Architecture	x86_64
Processor	Intel Xeon Family
CPU maker	Intel
Burstable	No
ECU	5

Memory	Value
Memory (GiB)	1.7

Networking	Value
Network	Moderate
Network baseline	0.3 Gbps
Network peak	1.2 Gbps
Enhanced networking	No
EFA	No
IPv6	No
Max network interfaces	2
IPv4 addresses per interface	6

Storage	Value
Storage	1 x 350 SSD
Local disks	1 × 350 GB HDD
EBS optimized	No
EBS over NVMe	No
Max EBS volumes	39

Instance details	Value
Instance type	c1.medium
Family	c1
Category	Compute optimized
Current generation	No
Normalization factor	2
Bare metal	No
Hypervisor	Xen
Placement groups	Partition, Spread
Hibernation	No
Nitro Enclaves	No
Boot modes	Legacy BIOS

Other c1 sizes

Size	vCPUs	Memory (GiB)	On-demand /hr
c1.medium	2	1.7	$0.13
c1.xlarge	8	7	$0.52

Prices updated 2026-11-12 from AWS public price lists. Compare all AWS EC2 instances.