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 0.053 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
2026-09-10T04:10:46.767477

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Ohio (US) / us-east-2
0.081867 USD/h 0.34 USD/h
Hyderabad (IN) / ap-south-2
0.1018 USD/h 0.34 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / ap-south-1
0.107733 USD/h 0.34 USD/h
Oregon (US) / us-west-2
0.146775 USD/h 0.34 USD/h
Northern Virgina (US) / us-east-1
0.15616 USD/h 0.34 USD/h
Stockholm (SE) / eu-north-1
0.108267 USD/h 0.364 USD/h
Calgary (CA) / ca-west-1
0.105433 USD/h 0.372 USD/h
Quebec (CA) / ca-central-1
0.141567 USD/h 0.372 USD/h
Aragón (ES) / eu-south-2
0.095533 USD/h 0.384 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / ap-northeast-2
0.102325 USD/h 0.384 USD/h
Dublin (IE) / eu-west-1
0.185767 USD/h 0.384 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / eu-central-1
0.1592 USD/h 0.388 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / ap-southeast-3
0.1117 USD/h 0.392 USD/h
Singapore (SG) / ap-southeast-1
0.170467 USD/h 0.392 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / il-central-1
0.170367 USD/h 0.403 USD/h
London (GB) / eu-west-2
0.1215 USD/h 0.404 USD/h
Milan (IT) / eu-south-1
0.1367 USD/h 0.404 USD/h
Paris (FR) / eu-west-3
0.1746 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
0.14385 USD/h 0.424 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / eu-central-2
0.140833 USD/h 0.427 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / ap-northeast-3
0.1774 USD/h 0.428 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / ap-northeast-1
0.1817 USD/h 0.428 USD/h
Hong Kong (HK) / ap-east-1
0.1419 USD/h 0.432 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / ap-southeast-4
0.087767 USD/h 0.444 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / ap-southeast-2
0.1823 USD/h 0.444 USD/h
Cape Town (ZA) / af-south-1
0.132 USD/h 0.456 USD/h
Sao Paulo (BR) / sa-east-1
0.094833 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 processors and balanced memory for stateless, compute-intensive workloads.

      Compute OptimizedGeneral Purpose

      Amazon Web Services c5.2xlarge is an x86_64 compute-optimized instance built on the Nitro hypervisor. It features an Intel Xeon 8275CL processor running at 3.4 GHz with 8 dedicated vCPUs, 4 physical cores, and 16.0 GB of DDR4 memory. The instance does not include local storage or GPU accelerators, and it delivers a baseline network bandwidth of 2 Gbps. Benchmark results indicate average performance across standard tasks, including a Geekbench multi-core score of 4531.0 and Redis SET throughput of 7.77 million operations per second. However, performance degrades to weak or poor levels during multi-threaded decompression and medium-model LLM inference. This server is qualitatively cost-efficient for compute-heavy, stateless workloads such as web serving and software compilation, but it is constrained by its 2.0 GB per core memory ratio and lack of local storage.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.491Score
      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 1,917,397 ops/sec 0.406 50.00% 50.00% -36.30%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 4,948,266 ops/sec 11,681,410 ops/sec 0.424 20.00% 20.00% -15.80%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,237 2,418 0.925 10.00% 10.00% -0.78%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 53,684 MB/sec 108,140 MB/sec 0.496 10.00% 10.00% -6.77%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 2,105 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.89 10.00% 10.00% -1.16%

      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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