c5d.metal by Amazon Web Services

c5d.metal is a Compute optimized [Instance store volumes] Gen5 metal server offered by Amazon Web Services with 96 vCPUs, 192 GiB of memory and 3.6 TB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.4752 USD per hour.
96 vCPU
192 GiB Memory
3.6 TB Storage
Spare SCore
95,229
(All-cores)
1,624
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
aws
Name
c5d.metal
Description
Compute optimized [Instance store volumes] Gen5 metal
Family
c5d
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-09-28T07:00:28.516496Z

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Ohio (US) / us-east-2
0.790033 USD/h 4.608 USD/h
Northern Virgina (US) / us-east-1
1.25635 USD/h 4.608 USD/h
Oregon (US) / us-west-2
2.086275 USD/h 4.608 USD/h
Hyderabad (IN) / ap-south-2
0.4752 USD/h 4.752 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / ap-south-1
0.906667 USD/h 4.752 USD/h
Stockholm (SE) / eu-north-1
0.5177 USD/h 4.992 USD/h
Quebec (CA) / ca-central-1
1.3129 USD/h 5.088 USD/h
Aragón (ES) / eu-south-2
0.600633 USD/h 5.232 USD/h
Dublin (IE) / eu-west-1
1.389867 USD/h 5.232 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / ap-northeast-2
0.60225 USD/h 5.28 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / eu-central-1
1.7674 USD/h 5.328 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / ap-southeast-3
0.5376 USD/h 5.376 USD/h
Singapore (SG) / ap-southeast-1
1.178933 USD/h 5.376 USD/h
Milan (IT) / eu-south-1
1.2358 USD/h 5.472 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / il-central-1
1.849267 USD/h 5.494 USD/h
London (GB) / eu-west-2
1.820633 USD/h 5.52 USD/h
United Arab Emirates / me-central-1
2.356 USD/h 5.755 USD/h
California (US) / us-west-1
1.60115 USD/h 5.76 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / ap-northeast-1
1.1849 USD/h 5.856 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / ap-northeast-3
1.99955 USD/h 5.856 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / eu-central-2
1.014133 USD/h 5.861 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / ap-southeast-4
1.134667 USD/h 6.048 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / ap-southeast-2
1.919167 USD/h 6.048 USD/h
Cape Town (ZA) / af-south-1
1.099367 USD/h 6.24 USD/h
Sao Paulo (BR) / sa-east-1
0.7152 USD/h 7.152 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
58.7
Scalability
61.15

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
192 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
192 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
    3600 GB
    Storage Type
    nvme ssd
    Storages
    • 900 GB nvme ssd
    • 900 GB nvme ssd
    • 900 GB nvme ssd
    • 900 GB nvme ssd
    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 platform featuring ninety-six vCPUs and high-speed local NVMe storage for demanding multi-threaded database workloads.

    Compute OptimizedStorage & Database

    Amazon Web Services c5d.metal is a bare-metal, compute-optimized server featuring 96 vCPUs (48 physical cores) powered by Intel Xeon 8275CL processors running at 3.6 GHz. Built on the x86_64 architecture, it includes 192 GB of DDR4 memory and 3600 GB of local NVMe SSD instance storage. The server delivers strong multi-core CPU performance and high memory bandwidth, alongside a baseline network speed of 25 Gbps. Benchmarks indicate exceptional throughput for database operations, Redis SET tasks, and software compilation, though single-core performance and LLM text generation are relatively average. Lacking a GPU, it is not designed for heavy AI model training. Instead, the c5d.metal offers a highly cost-efficient, resource-dense profile for bare-metal workloads, making it an excellent fit for high-performance computing, large-scale database hosting, and multi-threaded enterprise applications.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    3.51Score
    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) 10,539,233 ops/sec 1,919,696 ops/sec 5.49 50.00% 50.00% +134.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 53,763,766 ops/sec 11,736,081 ops/sec 4.58 20.00% 20.00% +35.60%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,958 2,418 1.22 10.00% 10.00% +2.01%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 246,730 MB/sec 108,260 MB/sec 2.28 10.00% 10.00% +8.59%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 2,297 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.971 10.00% 10.00% -0.29%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,452

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 13,982

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 63780
    Compression
    		 1338419
    Encryption
    		 41638
    Extended Instructions
    		 84552
    Floating Point Maths
    		 170994
    Integer Maths
    		 318484
    Physics
    		 5238
    Prime Numbers
    		 356
    Single Threaded
    		 2297
    String Sorting
    		 150385

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 2958
    Database Operations
    		 23400
    Memory Latency
    		 48
    Memory Read Cached
    		 27436
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 11473
    Memory Write
    		 10849

    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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