c4.large

c4.large is an AWS EC2 instance with 2 vCPUs, 3.75 GiB memory (Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3 (Haswell)). In US East (N. Virginia) it costs $0.1 per hour on demand ($73.00 per month) for Linux; a 1-year reserved instance with no upfront costs $0.063 per hour, 37% less. Spot capacity is about $0.0278 per hour. It is sold in 16 regions; the cheapest is Asia Pacific (Mumbai) at $0.1 per hour.

Prices by region

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

RegionOn-demandSpot1-yr reserved3-yr reserved1-yr savings plan3-yr savings plan
Asia Pacific (Mumbai) ap-south-1$0.1$0.0203$0.068$0.048$0.078$0.055
US East (N. Virginia) us-east-1$0.1$0.0278$0.063$0.044$0.072$0.051
US East (Ohio) us-east-2$0.1$0.0179$0.063$0.044$0.072$0.051
US West (Oregon) us-west-2$0.1$0.0324$0.063$0.044$0.072$0.051
Canada (Central) ca-central-1$0.11$0.0314$0.074$0.05$0.085$0.057
EU (Ireland) eu-west-1$0.113$0.029$0.078$0.059$0.089$0.068
Asia Pacific (Seoul) ap-northeast-2$0.114$0.0261$0.077$0.059$0.088$0.068
EU (Frankfurt) eu-central-1$0.114$0.0398$0.079$0.06$0.091$0.07
Asia Pacific (Singapore) ap-southeast-1$0.115$0.0327$0.079$0.056$0.091$0.065
EU (London) eu-west-2$0.119$0.0305$0.082$0.063$0.094$0.072
AWS GovCloud (US-West) us-gov-west-1$0.12–$0.076$0.052$0.087$0.06
US West (N. California) us-west-1$0.124$0.0171$0.085$0.062$0.098$0.071
Asia Pacific (Tokyo) ap-northeast-1$0.126$0.0409$0.09$0.069$0.104$0.079
Asia Pacific (Osaka) ap-northeast-3$0.126$0.0403$0.09$0.069$0.104$0.079
Asia Pacific (Sydney) ap-southeast-2$0.13$0.038$0.084$0.063$0.097$0.072
South America (Sao Paulo) sa-east-1$0.155$0.0235$0.11$0.078$0.127$0.089
Reserved and Savings PlansSpot prices by regionWindows prices by region

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

Operating systemOn-demand /hr1-yr reserved /hr3-yr reserved /hr
Linux$0.1$0.063$0.044
Ubuntu Pro$0.104––
RHEL$0.129$0.092$0.073
RHEL HA$0.164$0.127$0.108
Linux SQL Web$0.168$0.131$0.112
Windows$0.192$0.155$0.136
RHEL SQL Web$0.196––
SUSE$0.2$0.096$0.077
Windows SQL Web$0.331$0.226$0.207
Linux SQL Std$0.58$0.543$0.524
RHEL SQL Std$0.609––
RHEL HA SQL Std$0.644––
Windows SQL Std$1.319$1.068$1.263

Specs

ComputeValue
vCPUs2
Physical cores1
Threads per core2
Architecturex86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon E5-2666 v3 (Haswell)
CPU makerIntel
Clock speed2.9 GHz
Sustained clock2.9 GHz
Processor featuresIntel AVX; Intel AVX2; Intel Turbo
BurstableNo
ECU8
MemoryValue
Memory (GiB)3.75
NetworkingValue
NetworkModerate
Network baseline0.625 Gbps
Network peak1.2 Gbps
Enhanced networkingNo
EFANo
IPv6Yes
Max network interfaces3
IPv4 addresses per interface10
StorageValue
StorageEBS only
EBS optimizedYes
EBS over NVMeNo
EBS throughput500 Mbps
EBS baseline bandwidth500 Mbps
EBS max bandwidth500 Mbps
EBS baseline throughput62.5 MB/s
EBS max throughput62.5 MB/s
EBS baseline IOPS4,000
EBS max IOPS4,000
Max EBS volumes40
Instance detailsValue
Instance typec4.large
Familyc4
CategoryCompute optimized
Current generationYes
Normalization factor4
Bare metalNo
HypervisorXen
Placement groupsCluster, Partition, Spread
HibernationYes
Nitro EnclavesNo
Boot modesLegacy BIOS

Compare c4.large

Compute and memory optimized

vs m4.largevs r4.large

Other generations

vs c3.largevs c5.large

Other c4 sizes

SizevCPUsMemory (GiB)On-demand /hr
c4.large23.75$0.1
c4.xlarge47.5$0.199
c4.2xlarge815$0.398
c4.4xlarge1630$0.796
c4.8xlarge3660$1.591

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