c8a.medium

c8a.medium is an AWS EC2 instance with 1 vCPU, 2 GiB memory (AMD EPYC 9R45 Processor). In US East (N. Virginia) it costs $0.0539 per hour on demand ($39.35 per month) for Linux. Spot capacity is about $0.0111 per hour. It is sold in 7 regions.

Prices by region

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

RegionOn-demandSpot1-yr savings plan3-yr savings plan
US East (N. Virginia) us-east-1$0.0539$0.0111$0.0389$0.026
US East (Ohio) us-east-2$0.0539$0.0169$0.0389$0.026
US West (Oregon) us-west-2$0.0539$0.0224$0.0389$0.026
Europe (Spain) eu-south-2$0.0578$0.0102$0.0442$0.0302
EU (Ireland) eu-west-1$0.0578$0.024$0.0442$0.0302
EU (Frankfurt) eu-central-1$0.0615$0.0211$0.0468$0.0319
Asia Pacific (Tokyo) ap-northeast-1$0.0678$0.0266$0.0515$0.0353
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$0.0539––
Ubuntu Pro$0.0556––
RHEL$0.0683––
RHEL HA$0.0858––
Windows$0.0999––
SUSE$0.1102––
Linux SQL Web$0.1215––
RHEL SQL Web$0.1359––
Windows SQL Web$0.1675––
Linux SQL Std$0.5339––
RHEL SQL Std$0.5483––
RHEL HA SQL Std$0.5658––
Windows SQL Std$0.5799––

Specs

ComputeValue
vCPUs1
Physical cores1
Threads per core1
Architecturex86_64
ProcessorAMD EPYC 9R45 Processor
CPU makerAMD
Clock speedUp to 4.5 GHz
Sustained clock4.5 GHz
Processor featuresAMD Turbo; AVX; AVX2; AVX512
BurstableNo
MemoryValue
Memory (GiB)2
NetworkingValue
NetworkUp to 15 Gbps
Network baseline0.52 Gbps
Network peak12.5 Gbps
Enhanced networkingYes (ENA)
EFANo
IPv6Yes
Max network interfaces2
IPv4 addresses per interface4
StorageValue
StorageEBS only
EBS optimizedYes
EBS over NVMeRequired
EBS throughputUp to 10000 Mbps
EBS baseline bandwidth325 Mbps
EBS max bandwidth10,000 Mbps
EBS baseline throughput40.625 MB/s
EBS max throughput1,250 MB/s
EBS baseline IOPS2,500
EBS max IOPS40,000
Max EBS volumes32
Instance detailsValue
Instance typec8a.medium
Familyc8a
CategoryCompute optimized
Current generationYes
Normalization factor2
Bare metalNo
HypervisorNitro
Placement groupsCluster, Partition, Spread
HibernationYes
Nitro EnclavesNo
Boot modesLegacy BIOS, UEFI

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Other c8a sizes

SizevCPUsMemory (GiB)On-demand /hr
c8a.medium12$0.0539
c8a.large24$0.1078
c8a.xlarge48$0.2155
c8a.2xlarge816$0.4311
c8a.4xlarge1632$0.8622
c8a.8xlarge3264$1.724
c8a.12xlarge4896$2.587
c8a.16xlarge64128$3.449
c8a.24xlarge96192$5.173
c8a.metal-24xl96192$5.173
c8a.48xlarge192384$10.346
c8a.metal-48xl192384$10.346

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