c5a family

The c5a family has 8 sizes on AWS EC2, from 2 to 96 vCPUs and 4 to 192 GiB of memory. In US East (N. Virginia), on-demand prices run $0.077 to $3.696 per hour for Linux. It is sold in 22 regions and listed as compute optimized.

Sizes and prices in US East (N. Virginia)

TypevCPUsMemory (GiB)On-demand /hrSpot /hr1-yr reserved /hr
c5a.large24$0.077$0.0271$0.049
c5a.xlarge48$0.154$0.0636$0.097
c5a.2xlarge816$0.308$0.1129$0.194
c5a.4xlarge1632$0.616$0.2238$0.388
c5a.8xlarge3264$1.232$0.4063$0.776
c5a.12xlarge4896$1.848$0.5765$1.164
c5a.16xlarge64128$2.464$0.7715$1.552
c5a.24xlarge96192$3.696$0.9585$2.328

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Prices in USD per hour for Linux; reserved prices are 1 year, no upfront. Updated 2026-11-12 from AWS public price lists. Compare all AWS EC2 instance types.