c5.2xlarge by Amazon Web Services

c5.2xlarge is a Compute optimized Gen5 2xlarge server offered by Amazon Web Services with 8 vCPUs, 16 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0364 USD per hour.
8 vCPU
16 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
7,865
(All-cores)
1,494
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
aws
Name
c5.2xlarge
Description
Compute optimized Gen5 2xlarge
Family
c5
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-25T04:36:47.993329

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Hyderabad (IN) / ap-south-2
0.0395 USD/h 0.34 USD/h
Ohio (US) / us-east-2
0.074267 USD/h 0.34 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / ap-south-1
0.1206 USD/h 0.34 USD/h
Northern Virgina (US) / us-east-1
0.1407 USD/h 0.34 USD/h
Oregon (US) / us-west-2
0.145125 USD/h 0.34 USD/h
Stockholm (SE) / eu-north-1
0.0921 USD/h 0.364 USD/h
Calgary (CA) / ca-west-1
0.1376 USD/h 0.372 USD/h
Quebec (CA) / ca-central-1
0.142533 USD/h 0.372 USD/h
Aragón (ES) / eu-south-2
0.085167 USD/h 0.384 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / ap-northeast-2
0.101925 USD/h 0.384 USD/h
Dublin (IE) / eu-west-1
0.179967 USD/h 0.384 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / eu-central-1
0.1593 USD/h 0.388 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / ap-southeast-3
0.0392 USD/h 0.392 USD/h
Singapore (SG) / ap-southeast-1
0.164633 USD/h 0.392 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / il-central-1
0.1637 USD/h 0.403 USD/h
London (GB) / eu-west-2
0.120033 USD/h 0.404 USD/h
Milan (IT) / eu-south-1
0.132233 USD/h 0.404 USD/h
Paris (FR) / eu-west-3
0.174 USD/h 0.404 USD/h
United Arab Emirates / me-central-1
0.1728 USD/h 0.422 USD/h
California (US) / us-west-1
0.1349 USD/h 0.424 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / eu-central-2
0.1297 USD/h 0.427 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / ap-northeast-3
0.160467 USD/h 0.428 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / ap-northeast-1
0.187933 USD/h 0.428 USD/h
Hong Kong (HK) / ap-east-1
0.1257 USD/h 0.432 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / ap-southeast-4
0.082367 USD/h 0.444 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / ap-southeast-2
0.1899 USD/h 0.444 USD/h
Cape Town (ZA) / af-south-1
0.1427 USD/h 0.456 USD/h
Sao Paulo (BR) / sa-east-1
0.078833 USD/h 0.524 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
8
Hypervisor
nitro
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
4
CPU Speed
3.4 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU Model
8275CL
CPU L1D Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
128 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
128 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
4 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
36 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
36 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, rep_good, nopl, xtopology, nonstop_tsc, cpuid, aperfmperf, tsc_known_freq, pni, pclmulqdq, 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
5.3
Scalability
66.25

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
16 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
16 GiB
Memory Generation
DDR4
Memory Speed
2933 Mhz
ACCELERATORS
Accelerator Count
0
Accelerator Memory Min
0 MiB
Accelerator Memory Total
0 MiB
Accelerators
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    0 GB
    Storages
      NETWORK
      Network Speed Baseline
      2.5 Gbps
      Network Speed Max
      10 Gbps
      Network Storage Speed Baseline
      2.3 Gbps
      Network Storage Speed Max
      4.75 Gbps
      Inbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      Outbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      IPv4
      0

      Server Description

      A dedicated x86_64 compute-optimized instance with a balanced memory-to-core ratio, designed for web serving and batch processing workloads.

      Compute OptimizedGeneral Purpose

      Amazon Web Services c5.2xlarge is an x86_64 compute-optimized instance powered by an Intel Xeon 8275CL processor running at 3.4 GHz. Operating on the AWS Nitro hypervisor, it provides 8 dedicated vCPUs (4 physical cores) and 16.0 GB of DDR4 memory, establishing a 1:2 vCPU-to-RAM ratio. The instance lacks local storage and dedicated GPUs, relying instead on a 2 Gbps baseline network bandwidth. Performance benchmarks generally fall within the average tier, with a Geekbench multi-core score of 4531.0 and a static web serving throughput of 7.26 GB/sec. While it supports AVX-512 vector instructions, multi-threaded decompression and LLM inference tasks show weaker performance. This instance is qualitatively cost-effective for compute-heavy, network-storage-reliant workloads such as batch processing, web serving, and software compilation.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.49Score
      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) 778,335 ops/sec 1,919,289 ops/sec 0.41 50.00% 50.00% -36.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 4,948,266 ops/sec 11,728,058 ops/sec 0.41 20.00% 20.00% -16.00%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,237 2,416 0.92 10.00% 10.00% -0.83%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 53,684 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 0.49 10.00% 10.00% -6.90%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 2,105 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.88 10.00% 10.00% -1.30%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 1,175

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 4,531

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 8,888
      Compression
      		 116,497
      Encryption
      		 3,622
      Extended Instructions
      		 6,902
      Floating Point Maths
      		 14,122
      Integer Maths
      		 26,338
      Physics
      		 976
      Prime Numbers
      		 53
      Single Threaded
      		 2,105
      String Sorting
      		 13,735

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 2,237
      Database Operations
      		 3,013
      Memory Latency
      		 52
      Memory Read Cached
      		 25,578
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 11,446
      Memory Write
      		 10,736

      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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