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c5.18xlarge by Amazon Web Services

c5.18xlarge is a Compute optimized Gen5 18xlarge server offered by Amazon Web Services with 72 vCPUs, 144 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.3276 USD per hour.
72 vCPU
144 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
66687
(All-cores)
1425
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
aws
Name
c5.18xlarge
Description
Compute optimized Gen5 18xlarge
Family
c5
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-07-26T14:12:59.547315

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Mumbai (IN) / ap-south-1
0.7089 USD/h 3.06 USD/h
Ohio (US) / us-east-2
0.8322 USD/h 3.06 USD/h
Hyderabad (IN) / ap-south-2
0.9277 USD/h 3.06 USD/h
Oregon (US) / us-west-2
1.1752 USD/h 3.06 USD/h
Northern Virgina (US) / us-east-1
1.18918 USD/h 3.06 USD/h
Stockholm (SE) / eu-north-1
0.793367 USD/h 3.276 USD/h
Calgary (CA) / ca-west-1
2.128867 USD/h 3.348 USD/h
Quebec (CA) / ca-central-1
1.0403 USD/h 3.348 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / ap-northeast-2
0.69885 USD/h 3.456 USD/h
Aragón (ES) / eu-south-2
1.844033 USD/h 3.456 USD/h
Dublin (IE) / eu-west-1
1.518433 USD/h 3.456 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / eu-central-1
1.252633 USD/h 3.492 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / ap-southeast-3
0.4142 USD/h 3.528 USD/h
Singapore (SG) / ap-southeast-1
1.027233 USD/h 3.528 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / il-central-1
1.287633 USD/h 3.629 USD/h
Milan (IT) / eu-south-1
0.538933 USD/h 3.636 USD/h
London (GB) / eu-west-2
1.0564 USD/h 3.636 USD/h
Paris (FR) / eu-west-3
1.023567 USD/h 3.636 USD/h
United Arab Emirates / me-central-1
1.5564 USD/h 3.802 USD/h
California (US) / us-west-1
1.3026 USD/h 3.816 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / eu-central-2
1.627833 USD/h 3.841 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / ap-northeast-3
0.931267 USD/h 3.852 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / ap-northeast-1
0.987367 USD/h 3.852 USD/h
Hong Kong (HK) / ap-east-1
0.599733 USD/h 3.888 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / ap-southeast-4
0.819667 USD/h 3.996 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / ap-southeast-2
1.422067 USD/h 3.996 USD/h
Cape Town (ZA) / af-south-1
0.546967 USD/h 4.104 USD/h
Sao Paulo (BR) / sa-east-1
1.178367 USD/h 4.716 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
72
Hypervisor
nitro
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
36
CPU Speed
3.4 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU Model
8223CL
CPU L1D Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
1 MiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
36 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
25 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
50 MiB
CPU Flags
fpu, vme, de, pse, tsc, msr, pae, mce, cx8, apic, sep, mtrr, pge, mca, cmov, pat, pse36, clflush, mmx, fxsr, sse, sse2, ss, ht, syscall, nx, pdpe1gb, rdtscp, lm, constant_tsc, arch_perfmon, rep_good, nopl, xtopology, nonstop_tsc, cpuid, aperfmperf, tsc_known_freq, pni, pclmulqdq, monitor, ssse3, fma, cx16, pcid, sse4_1, sse4_2, x2apic, movbe, popcnt, tsc_deadline_timer, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, abm, 3dnowprefetch, pti, fsgsbase, tsc_adjust, bmi1, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, mpx, avx512f, avx512dq, rdseed, adx, smap, clflushopt, clwb, avx512cd, avx512bw, avx512vl, xsaveopt, xsavec, xgetbv1, xsaves, ida, arat, pku, ospke
Ecpus
46.8
Scalability
130

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
144 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
144 GiB
Memory Generation
DDR4
Memory Speed
2666 Mhz
GPU
GPU Count
0
GPU Memory Min
0 MiB
GPU Memory Total
0 MiB
GPUs
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    0 GB
    Storages
      NETWORK
      Network Speed Baseline
      25 Gbps
      Network Speed Max
      25 Gbps
      Network Storage Speed Baseline
      19 Gbps
      Network Storage Speed Max
      19 Gbps
      Inbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      Outbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      IPv4
      0

      Server Description

      A compute-optimized server featuring seventy-two virtual cores and DDR4 memory for multi-threaded processing and database workloads.

      Compute OptimizedGeneral Purpose

      Amazon Web Services c5.18xlarge is a compute-optimized server featuring an Intel Xeon 8223CL processor with 36 physical cores and 72 vCPUs running at 3.4 GHz. It is equipped with 144.0 GB of DDR4 memory, providing 2.0 GB per core, and operates on the AWS Nitro hypervisor. The server lacks local storage and GPU accelerators but offers a 25 Gbps baseline network bandwidth. Benchmark results indicate strong multi-core CPU performance and memory bandwidth, placing in the top 25 percent, while single-core metrics and LLM text generation speeds remain in the average and weak categories respectively. This configuration is suited for multi-threaded compute workloads, database operations, and software compilation where dedicated CPU resources are required without the need for local storage.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      2.5Score
      Precomputed compound score for Cache Intensive workloads. A weighted average (geometric mean) of benchmark scores compared to their medians: score = ∏ (x_i / m_i)^(w_i / Σw). The score of 1.0 represents a synthetic baseline server with the median performance of each component benchmark; 0.5 means roughly half the performance; and 2.0 means twice the performance of that reference profile. Component weights: 50% Redis RPS (pipeline=1, SET), 20% Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET), 10% PassMark Memory Mark (composite), 10% Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3), 10% PassMark single-thread CPU. Rationale for component selection: In-memory key-value store workload, mixing direct Redis performance metrics with memory speed and latency benchmarks, and single-core CPU performance profiles.
      Component Score Weight Impact
      Raw Reference Normalized Target Actual
      Redis RPS (pipeline=1, SET) 6,567,198 ops/sec 1,896,415 ops/sec 3.46 50.00% 50.00% +86.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 36,918,393 ops/sec 11,539,523 ops/sec 3.2 20.00% 20.00% +26.20%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,685 2,411 1.11 10.00% 10.00% +1.05%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 215,973 MB/sec 107,368 MB/sec 2.01 10.00% 10.00% +7.23%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 2,005 Mops/s 2,363 Mops/s 0.849 10.00% 10.00% -1.62%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 1,189

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 12,139

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      49988
      Compression
      977849
      Encryption
      30433
      Extended Instructions
      67018
      Floating Point Maths
      119656
      Integer Maths
      223649
      Physics
      4405
      Prime Numbers
      265
      Single Threaded
      2005
      String Sorting
      111747

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      2685
      Database Operations
      22109
      Memory Latency
      53
      Memory Read Cached
      24492
      Memory Read Uncached
      10319
      Memory Write
      10077

      Stress-ng Raw Scores

      Stress-ng Relative Multicore Performance

      LLM Inference Speed for Prompt Processing

      LLM Inference Speed for Text Generation

      Static Web Server

      Redis

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      c5.24xlarge 96192 GiB0

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