r5dn.large

r5dn.large is an AWS EC2 instance with 2 vCPUs, 16 GiB memory (Intel Xeon Platinum 8259 (Cascade Lake)). In US East (N. Virginia) it costs $0.167 per hour on demand ($121.91 per month) for Linux; a 1-year reserved instance with no upfront costs $0.105 per hour, 37% less. Spot capacity is about $0.0385 per hour. It is sold in 15 regions.

Prices by region

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

Region	On-demand	Spot	1-yr reserved	3-yr reserved	1-yr savings plan	3-yr savings plan
US East (N. Virginia) us-east-1	$0.167	$0.0385	$0.105	$0.068	$0.121	$0.078
US East (Ohio) us-east-2	$0.167	$0.0267	$0.105	$0.068	$0.121	$0.078
US West (Oregon) us-west-2	$0.167	$0.0454	$0.105	$0.068	$0.121	$0.078
EU (Stockholm) eu-north-1	$0.177	$0.0177	$0.1115	$0.0738	$0.131	$0.0849
EU (Ireland) eu-west-1	$0.186	$0.0559	$0.117	$0.078	$0.137	$0.089
EU (Milan) eu-south-1	$0.196	$0.0347	$0.1235	$0.0817	$0.1424	$0.0942
EU (Paris) eu-west-3	$0.196	$0.0526	$0.1235	$0.0819	$0.1437	$0.0936
Asia Pacific (Seoul) ap-northeast-2	$0.199	$0.0475	$0.1254	$0.083	$0.146	$0.095
EU (Frankfurt) eu-central-1	$0.199	$0.0627	$0.125	$0.083	$0.147	$0.095
Asia Pacific (Singapore) ap-southeast-1	$0.2	$0.0626	$0.126	$0.082	$0.147	$0.094
AWS GovCloud (US-East) us-gov-east-1	$0.201	–	$0.1266	$0.0821	$0.147	$0.094
AWS GovCloud (US-West) us-gov-west-1	$0.201	–	$0.127	$0.082	$0.147	$0.094
Asia Pacific (Tokyo) ap-northeast-1	$0.203	$0.0453	$0.128	$0.085	$0.152	$0.098
Asia Pacific (Sydney) ap-southeast-2	$0.204	$0.0455	$0.1285	$0.0835	$0.15	$0.096
Africa (Cape Town) af-south-1	$0.221	$0.0512	$0.1392	$0.0907	$0.161	$0.1067

Reserved and Savings Plans Spot prices by region Windows prices by region Azure equivalents

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

Operating system	On-demand /hr	1-yr reserved /hr	3-yr reserved /hr
Linux	$0.167	$0.105	$0.068
Ubuntu Pro	$0.1705	–	–
RHEL	$0.1958	$0.134	$0.0968
RHEL HA	$0.2308	$0.169	$0.1318
Linux SQL Web	$0.235	$0.173	$0.136
Windows	$0.259	$0.197	$0.16
RHEL SQL Web	$0.2634	–	–
Windows SQL Web	$0.327	$0.265	$0.228
Linux SQL Std	$0.647	$0.585	$0.548
RHEL SQL Std	$0.6758	–	–
RHEL HA SQL Std	$0.7108	–	–
Windows SQL Std	$0.739	$0.677	$0.64

Specs

Compute	Value
vCPUs	2
Physical cores	1
Threads per core	2
Architecture	x86_64
Processor	Intel Xeon Platinum 8259 (Cascade Lake)
CPU maker	Intel
Clock speed	3.1 GHz
Sustained clock	3.1 GHz
Burstable	No

Memory	Value
Memory (GiB)	16

Networking	Value
Network	Up to 25 Gbps
Network baseline	2.1 Gbps
Network peak	25 Gbps
Enhanced networking	Yes (ENA)
EFA	No
IPv6	Yes
Max network interfaces	3
IPv4 addresses per interface	10

Storage	Value
Storage	1 x 75 NVMe SSD
Local disks	1 × 75 GB SSD
EBS optimized	Yes
EBS over NVMe	Required
EBS throughput	Up to 2120 Mbps
EBS baseline bandwidth	650 Mbps
EBS max bandwidth	4,750 Mbps
EBS baseline throughput	81.25 MB/s
EBS max throughput	593.75 MB/s
EBS baseline IOPS	3,600
EBS max IOPS	18,750
Max EBS volumes	26

Instance details	Value
Instance type	r5dn.large
Family	r5dn
Category	Memory optimized
Current generation	Yes
Normalization factor	4
Bare metal	No
Hypervisor	Nitro
Placement groups	Cluster, Partition, Spread
Hibernation	No
Nitro Enclaves	No
Boot modes	Legacy BIOS, UEFI

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Size	vCPUs	Memory (GiB)	On-demand /hr
r5dn.large	2	16	$0.167
r5dn.xlarge	4	32	$0.334
r5dn.2xlarge	8	64	$0.668
r5dn.4xlarge	16	128	$1.336
r5dn.8xlarge	32	256	$2.672
r5dn.12xlarge	48	384	$4.008
r5dn.16xlarge	64	512	$5.344
r5dn.24xlarge	96	768	$8.016
r5dn.metal	96	768	$8.016

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