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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 0.0704 USD per hour.
8 vCPU
16 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
7865
(All-cores)
1494
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
aws
Name
c5.2xlarge
Description
Compute optimized Gen5 2xlarge
Family
c5
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-07-27T02:53:59.084031

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Ohio (US) / us-east-2
0.084833 USD/h 0.34 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / ap-south-1
0.104633 USD/h 0.34 USD/h
Hyderabad (IN) / ap-south-2
0.136867 USD/h 0.34 USD/h
Oregon (US) / us-west-2
0.13905 USD/h 0.34 USD/h
Northern Virgina (US) / us-east-1
0.1554 USD/h 0.34 USD/h
Stockholm (SE) / eu-north-1
0.151733 USD/h 0.364 USD/h
Calgary (CA) / ca-west-1
0.120067 USD/h 0.372 USD/h
Quebec (CA) / ca-central-1
0.139433 USD/h 0.372 USD/h
Aragón (ES) / eu-south-2
0.096533 USD/h 0.384 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / ap-northeast-2
0.122725 USD/h 0.384 USD/h
Dublin (IE) / eu-west-1
0.1884 USD/h 0.384 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / eu-central-1
0.166933 USD/h 0.388 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / ap-southeast-3
0.112 USD/h 0.392 USD/h
Singapore (SG) / ap-southeast-1
0.1716 USD/h 0.392 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / il-central-1
0.174933 USD/h 0.403 USD/h
Milan (IT) / eu-south-1
0.132367 USD/h 0.404 USD/h
London (GB) / eu-west-2
0.1347 USD/h 0.404 USD/h
Paris (FR) / eu-west-3
0.1454 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
0.1481 USD/h 0.424 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / eu-central-2
0.145167 USD/h 0.427 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / ap-northeast-3
0.155133 USD/h 0.428 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / ap-northeast-1
0.1697 USD/h 0.428 USD/h
Hong Kong (HK) / ap-east-1
0.146433 USD/h 0.432 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / ap-southeast-4
0.122967 USD/h 0.444 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / ap-southeast-2
0.186067 USD/h 0.444 USD/h
Cape Town (ZA) / af-south-1
0.099033 USD/h 0.456 USD/h
Sao Paulo (BR) / sa-east-1
0.085033 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
132.5

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
16 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
16 GiB
Memory Generation
DDR4
Memory Speed
2933 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
      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 compute-optimized virtual server featuring dedicated Intel Xeon processing and balanced DDR4 memory for standard compute-bound workloads.

      Compute OptimizedGeneral Purpose

      Amazon Web Services c5.2xlarge is an x86_64 compute-optimized server running on the Nitro hypervisor. It features a dedicated Intel Xeon 8275CL processor with 8 vCPUs (4 physical cores) clocked at 3.4 GHz, alongside 16.0 GB of DDR4 memory. The instance lacks local storage and GPU accelerators, relying on a 2 Gbps baseline network bandwidth. Performance benchmarks place the server in the average tier for most compute tasks, with a Geekbench single-core score of 1175.0 and multi-core score of 4531.0. However, it exhibits weaknesses in multi-threaded decompression and image processing, and shows poor performance in LLM inference. Qualitatively, the server offers a balanced compute-to-memory ratio for standard processing tasks but presents a clear tradeoff in memory-bound or storage-heavy scenarios. It is best suited for workloads like software compilation, ray tracing, and static web serving.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.495Score
      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 1,896,415 ops/sec 0.41 50.00% 50.00% -36.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 4,948,266 ops/sec 11,539,523 ops/sec 0.429 20.00% 20.00% -15.60%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,237 2,411 0.928 10.00% 10.00% -0.74%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 53,684 MB/sec 107,368 MB/sec 0.5 10.00% 10.00% -6.70%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 2,105 Mops/s 2,363 Mops/s 0.891 10.00% 10.00% -1.15%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 1,175

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 4,531

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 8888
      Compression
      		 116497
      Encryption
      		 3622
      Extended Instructions
      		 6902
      Floating Point Maths
      		 14122
      Integer Maths
      		 26338
      Physics
      		 976
      Prime Numbers
      		 53
      Single Threaded
      		 2105
      String Sorting
      		 13735

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 2237
      Database Operations
      		 3013
      Memory Latency
      		 52
      Memory Read Cached
      		 25578
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 11446
      Memory Write
      		 10736

      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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