c5ad.large

c5ad.large is an AWS EC2 instance with 2 vCPUs, 4 GiB memory (AMD EPYC 7R32). In US East (N. Virginia) it costs $0.086 per hour on demand ($62.78 per month) for Linux; a 1-year reserved instance with no upfront costs $0.054 per hour, 37% less. Spot capacity is about $0.031 per hour. It is sold in 11 regions.

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
US East (N. Virginia) us-east-1$0.086$0.031$0.054$0.037$0.062$0.042
US East (Ohio) us-east-2$0.086$0.0289$0.054$0.037$0.062$0.042
US West (Oregon) us-west-2$0.086$0.0334$0.054$0.037$0.062$0.042
EU (Ireland) eu-west-1$0.098$0.0441$0.062$0.042$0.078$0.055
EU (Frankfurt) eu-central-1$0.1$0.0442$0.063$0.043$0.079$0.057
Asia Pacific (Singapore) ap-southeast-1$0.101$0.04$0.064$0.044$0.078$0.052
EU (Milan) eu-south-1$0.103$0.0231$0.065$0.044$0.082$0.058
Middle East (Bahrain) me-south-1$0.108$0.0279$0.068$0.047$0.086$0.06
Asia Pacific (Sydney) ap-southeast-2$0.113$0.0428$0.071$0.049$0.083$0.058
Africa (Cape Town) af-south-1$0.117$0.0392$0.074$0.051$0.093$0.065
South America (Sao Paulo) sa-east-1$0.134$0.0333$0.084$0.058$0.11$0.072
Reserved and Savings PlansSpot prices by regionWindows prices by regionAzure equivalents

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

Operating systemOn-demand /hr1-yr reserved /hr3-yr reserved /hr
Linux$0.086$0.054$0.037
Ubuntu Pro$0.09––
RHEL$0.115$0.083$0.066
SUSE$0.142$0.079$0.059
RHEL HA$0.15$0.118$0.101
Linux SQL Web$0.154$0.122$0.105
Windows$0.178$0.146$0.129
RHEL SQL Web$0.182––
Windows SQL Web$0.246$0.214$0.197
Linux SQL Std$0.566$0.534$0.517
RHEL SQL Std$0.595––
RHEL HA SQL Std$0.63––
Windows SQL Std$0.658$0.626$0.609

Specs

ComputeValue
vCPUs2
Physical cores1
Threads per core2
Architecturex86_64
ProcessorAMD EPYC 7R32
CPU makerAMD
Clock speed3.3 GHz
Sustained clock3.3 GHz
Processor featuresAMD Turbo; AVX; AVX2
BurstableNo
MemoryValue
Memory (GiB)4
NetworkingValue
NetworkUp to 10 Gbps
Network baseline0.75 Gbps
Network peak10 Gbps
Enhanced networkingYes (ENA)
EFANo
IPv6Yes
Max network interfaces3
IPv4 addresses per interface10
StorageValue
Storage1 x 75 NVMe SSD
Local disks1 × 75 GB SSD
EBS optimizedYes
EBS over NVMeRequired
EBS throughputUp to 3170 Mbps
EBS baseline bandwidth200 Mbps
EBS max bandwidth3,170 Mbps
EBS baseline throughput25 MB/s
EBS max throughput396.25 MB/s
EBS baseline IOPS800
EBS max IOPS13,300
Max EBS volumes26
Instance detailsValue
Instance typec5ad.large
Familyc5ad
CategoryCompute optimized
Current generationYes
Normalization factor4
Bare metalNo
HypervisorNitro
Placement groupsCluster, Partition, Spread
HibernationNo
Nitro EnclavesNo
Boot modesLegacy BIOS, UEFI

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Other c5ad sizes

SizevCPUsMemory (GiB)On-demand /hr
c5ad.large24$0.086
c5ad.xlarge48$0.172
c5ad.2xlarge816$0.344
c5ad.4xlarge1632$0.688
c5ad.8xlarge3264$1.376
c5ad.12xlarge4896$2.064
c5ad.16xlarge64128$2.752
c5ad.24xlarge96192$4.128

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