Instances AWS EC2 c8a.large c8a.large
c8a.large is an AWS EC2 instance with 2 vCPUs, 4 GiB memory (AMD EPYC 9R45 Processor). In US East (N. Virginia) it costs $0.1078 per hour on demand ($78.69 per month) for Linux. Spot capacity is about $0.0335 per hour. It is sold in 7 regions.
USD per hour, Linux. Reserved prices are no upfront, standard. Cheapest on-demand first.
Prices by operating system in US East (N. Virginia) Operating system On-demand /hr 1-yr reserved /hr 3-yr reserved /hr Linux $0.1078 – – Ubuntu Pro $0.1113 – – RHEL $0.1366 – – SUSE $0.1641 – – RHEL HA $0.1716 – – Linux SQL Web $0.1754 – – Windows $0.1998 – – RHEL SQL Web $0.2042 – – Windows SQL Web $0.2674 – – Linux SQL Std $0.5878 – – RHEL SQL Std $0.6166 – – RHEL HA SQL Std $0.6516 – – Windows SQL Std $0.6798 – –
Compute Value vCPUs 2 Physical cores 2 Threads per core 1 Architecture x86_64 Processor AMD EPYC 9R45 Processor CPU maker AMD Clock speed Up to 4.5 GHz Sustained clock 4.5 GHz Processor features AMD Turbo; AVX; AVX2; AVX512 Burstable No
Networking Value Network Up to 15 Gbps Network baseline 0.937 Gbps Network peak 12.5 Gbps Enhanced networking Yes (ENA) EFA No IPv6 Yes Max network interfaces 3 IPv4 addresses per interface 20
Storage Value Storage EBS only EBS optimized Yes EBS over NVMe Required EBS throughput Up to 10000 Mbps EBS baseline bandwidth 650 Mbps EBS max bandwidth 10,000 Mbps EBS baseline throughput 81.25 MB/s EBS max throughput 1,250 MB/s EBS baseline IOPS 3,600 EBS max IOPS 40,000 Max EBS volumes 32
Instance details Value Instance type c8a.large Family c8a Category Compute optimized Current generation Yes Normalization factor 4 Bare metal No Hypervisor Nitro Placement groups Cluster, Partition, Spread Hibernation Yes Nitro Enclaves Yes Boot modes Legacy BIOS, UEFI
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Prices updated 2026-11-12 from AWS public price lists. Compare all AWS EC2 instances .