c5.metal by Amazon Web Services

c5.metal is a Compute optimized Gen5 metal server offered by Amazon Web Services with 96 vCPUs, 192 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.408 USD per hour.
96 vCPU
192 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
95,252
(All-cores)
1,627
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
aws
Name
c5.metal
API Reference Object
-
Description
Compute optimized Gen5 metal
Family
c5
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-17T07:16:38.104309

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Hyderabad (IN) / ap-south-2
0.408 USD/h 4.08 USD/h
Ohio (US) / us-east-2
0.769567 USD/h 4.08 USD/h
Northern Virgina (US) / us-east-1
1.1064 USD/h 4.08 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / ap-south-1
1.069933 USD/h 4.08 USD/h
Oregon (US) / us-west-2
1.749425 USD/h 4.08 USD/h
Stockholm (SE) / eu-north-1
0.4368 USD/h 4.368 USD/h
Quebec (CA) / ca-central-1
1.5214 USD/h 4.464 USD/h
Calgary (CA) / ca-west-1
2.8391 USD/h 4.464 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / ap-northeast-2
0.4608 USD/h 4.608 USD/h
Dublin (IE) / eu-west-1
1.204467 USD/h 4.608 USD/h
Aragón (ES) / eu-south-2
3.8015 USD/h 4.608 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / eu-central-1
1.759933 USD/h 4.656 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / ap-southeast-3
0.4704 USD/h 4.704 USD/h
Singapore (SG) / ap-southeast-1
1.395067 USD/h 4.704 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / il-central-1
1.306533 USD/h 4.838 USD/h
London (GB) / eu-west-2
1.009267 USD/h 4.848 USD/h
Milan (IT) / eu-south-1
0.8477 USD/h 4.848 USD/h
Paris (FR) / eu-west-3
1.1213 USD/h 4.848 USD/h
United Arab Emirates / me-central-1
2.0751 USD/h 5.069 USD/h
California (US) / us-west-1
0.5869 USD/h 5.088 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / eu-central-2
1.3154 USD/h 5.122 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / ap-northeast-1
1.310633 USD/h 5.136 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / ap-northeast-3
1.3963 USD/h 5.136 USD/h
Hong Kong (HK) / ap-east-1
0.594867 USD/h 5.184 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / ap-southeast-4
1.137033 USD/h 5.328 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / ap-southeast-2
1.976933 USD/h 5.328 USD/h
Cape Town (ZA) / af-south-1
1.0583 USD/h 5.472 USD/h
Sao Paulo (BR) / sa-east-1
0.6288 USD/h 6.288 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
96
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
48
CPU Speed
3.6 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU Model
8275CL
CPU L1D Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
2 MiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
2 MiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
48 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
36 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
72 MiB
CPU Flags
fpu, vme, de, pse, tsc, msr, pae, mce, cx8, apic, sep, mtrr, pge, mca, cmov, pat, pse36, clflush, dts, acpi, mmx, fxsr, sse, sse2, ss, ht, tm, pbe, syscall, nx, pdpe1gb, rdtscp, lm, constant_tsc, art, arch_perfmon, pebs, bts, rep_good, nopl, xtopology, nonstop_tsc, cpuid, aperfmperf, pni, pclmulqdq, dtes64, monitor, ds_cpl, vmx, smx, est, tm2, ssse3, sdbg, fma, cx16, xtpr, pdcm, pcid, dca, sse4_1, sse4_2, x2apic, movbe, popcnt, tsc_deadline_timer, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, lahf_lm, abm, 3dnowprefetch, cpuid_fault, epb, cat_l3, cdp_l3, intel_ppin, ssbd, mba, ibrs, ibpb, stibp, ibrs_enhanced, tpr_shadow, flexpriority, ept, vpid, ept_ad, fsgsbase, tsc_adjust, bmi1, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, cqm, mpx, rdt_a, avx512f, avx512dq, rdseed, adx, smap, clflushopt, clwb, intel_pt, avx512cd, avx512bw, avx512vl, xsaveopt, xsavec, xgetbv1, xsaves, cqm_llc, cqm_occup_llc, cqm_mbm_total, cqm_mbm_local, dtherm, ida, arat, pln, pts, hwp, hwp_act_window, hwp_epp, hwp_pkg_req, vnmi, pku, ospke, avx512_vnni, md_clear, flush_l1d, arch_capabilities
Ecpus
58.5
Scalability
60.94

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
192 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
192 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
      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 bare-metal, compute-optimized server featuring ninety-six vCPUs and high-bandwidth memory for demanding multi-threaded workloads and database operations.

      Compute OptimizedGeneral Purpose

      Amazon Web Services c5.metal is a bare-metal, compute-optimized server featuring 96 vCPUs across 48 physical Intel Xeon 8275CL cores on the x86_64 architecture. Operating at 3.6 GHz, it is equipped with 192.0 GB of DDR4 memory, 25 Gbps baseline network bandwidth, and no local storage or GPUs. Benchmark data highlights strong multi-core processing and memory bandwidth, with a PassMark CPU score of 63,325.12 and a Redis SET performance of 82.96 million operations per second. While single-core performance and LLM text generation are average to poor, the server excels in multi-threaded tasks, software compilation, and high-throughput web serving. It is highly suited for compute-intensive workloads, database operations, and applications requiring direct hardware access without hypervisor overhead.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      3.4Score
      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) 10,397,777 ops/sec 1,917,050 ops/sec 5.3 50.00% 50.00% +130.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 53,323,125 ops/sec 11,661,818 ops/sec 4.4 20.00% 20.00% +34.00%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,923 2,417 1.2 10.00% 10.00% +1.80%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 246,334 MB/sec 108,361 MB/sec 2.3 10.00% 10.00% +8.70%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 2,292 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.96 10.00% 10.00% -0.41%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 1,456

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 13,937

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 63325
      Compression
      		 1304370
      Encryption
      		 40987
      Extended Instructions
      		 83855
      Floating Point Maths
      		 170938
      Integer Maths
      		 318466
      Physics
      		 5260
      Prime Numbers
      		 357
      Single Threaded
      		 2292
      String Sorting
      		 146600

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 2923
      Database Operations
      		 23621
      Memory Latency
      		 49
      Memory Read Cached
      		 27203
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 11161
      Memory Write
      		 10664

      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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