c5d.9xlarge by Amazon Web Services

c5d.9xlarge is a Compute optimized [Instance store volumes] Gen5 9xlarge server offered by Amazon Web Services with 36 vCPUs, 72 GiB of memory and 900 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.1782 USD per hour.
36 vCPU
72 GiB Memory
900 GB Storage
Spare SCore
33,338
(All-cores)
1,425
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
aws
Name
c5d.9xlarge
Description
Compute optimized [Instance store volumes] Gen5 9xlarge
Family
c5d
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-28T23:25:16.742456

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Ohio (US) / us-east-2
0.470633 USD/h 1.728 USD/h
Oregon (US) / us-west-2
0.63545 USD/h 1.728 USD/h
Northern Virgina (US) / us-east-1
0.65442 USD/h 1.728 USD/h
Hyderabad (IN) / ap-south-2
0.1782 USD/h 1.782 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / ap-south-1
0.711867 USD/h 1.782 USD/h
Stockholm (SE) / eu-north-1
0.1872 USD/h 1.872 USD/h
Quebec (CA) / ca-central-1
0.527233 USD/h 1.908 USD/h
Aragón (ES) / eu-south-2
0.321667 USD/h 1.962 USD/h
Dublin (IE) / eu-west-1
0.9884 USD/h 1.962 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / ap-northeast-2
0.375025 USD/h 1.98 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / eu-central-1
0.807633 USD/h 1.998 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / ap-southeast-3
0.2016 USD/h 2.016 USD/h
Singapore (SG) / ap-southeast-1
1.130467 USD/h 2.016 USD/h
Milan (IT) / eu-south-1
0.395667 USD/h 2.052 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / il-central-1
0.532767 USD/h 2.06 USD/h
London (GB) / eu-west-2
0.652433 USD/h 2.07 USD/h
Paris (FR) / eu-west-3
0.821867 USD/h 2.07 USD/h
United Arab Emirates / me-central-1
0.8834 USD/h 2.158 USD/h
California (US) / us-west-1
0.64155 USD/h 2.16 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / ap-northeast-3
0.607167 USD/h 2.196 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / ap-northeast-1
0.783067 USD/h 2.196 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / eu-central-2
0.3894 USD/h 2.198 USD/h
Hong Kong (HK) / ap-east-1
0.4888 USD/h 2.214 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / ap-southeast-4
0.400533 USD/h 2.268 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / ap-southeast-2
0.772667 USD/h 2.268 USD/h
Cape Town (ZA) / af-south-1
0.517333 USD/h 2.34 USD/h
Sao Paulo (BR) / sa-east-1
1.0923 USD/h 2.682 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
36
Hypervisor
nitro
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
18
CPU Speed
3.4 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU Model
8124M
CPU L1D Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
576 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
576 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
18 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
25 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
25 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
23.4
Scalability
65

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
72 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
72 GiB
Memory Generation
DDR4
Memory Speed
2666 Mhz
ACCELERATORS
Accelerator Count
0
Accelerator Memory Min
0 MiB
Accelerator Memory Total
0 MiB
Accelerators
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    900 GB
    Storage Type
    nvme ssd
    Storages
    • 900 GB nvme ssd
    NETWORK
    Network Speed Baseline
    12 Gbps
    Network Speed Max
    12 Gbps
    Network Storage Speed Baseline
    9.5 Gbps
    Network Storage Speed Max
    9.5 Gbps
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    Server Description

    A compute-optimized platform featuring dedicated Intel Xeon processors and high-speed local NVMe SSD storage for intensive processing workloads.

    Compute OptimizedStorage & Database

    Amazon Web Services c5d.9xlarge is a compute-optimized instance powered by a 36-vCPU Intel Xeon 8124M processor running at 3.4 GHz. Built on the Nitro hypervisor, it features 72.0 GB of DDR4 memory and a bundled 900 GB NVMe SSD local instance store. The instance delivers strong compute performance, as evidenced by a Passmark CPU score of 30111.19 and a static web serving throughput of 21.81 GB/sec. However, with a 1:2 vCPU-to-RAM ratio, it is less suited for memory-bound applications, and LLM inference performance drops significantly on larger models. It is highly efficient for workloads that require high-speed local storage alongside dedicated compute resources, such as batch processing, software compilation, and high-throughput web serving.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

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    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    1.4Score
    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) 3,279,052 ops/sec 1,919,289 ops/sec 1.7 50.00% 50.00% +30.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 18,728,060 ops/sec 11,728,058 ops/sec 1.6 20.00% 20.00% +9.90%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,737 2,416 1.1 10.00% 10.00% +0.96%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 105,150 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 1 10.00% 10.00% 0.00%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 2,004 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.83 10.00% 10.00% -1.80%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,167

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 10,437

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 30,111
    Compression
    		 483,363
    Encryption
    		 15,171
    Extended Instructions
    		 33,369
    Floating Point Maths
    		 59,847
    Integer Maths
    		 111,729
    Physics
    		 2,214
    Prime Numbers
    		 132
    Single Threaded
    		 2,004
    String Sorting
    		 56,462

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2,737
    Database Operations
    		 12,450
    Memory Latency
    		 52
    Memory Read Cached
    		 24,595
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 11,768
    Memory Write
    		 10,947

    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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