The c3.xlarge is a compute optimised instance in the c3 family with 4 vCPU and 7.5 GiB of memory on Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2 (Ivy Bridge). It costs $153.30 a month on-demand in us-east-1 (N. Virginia) and is offered in 10 regions.
The list price has not changed in this window. Spot moves with demand and is read every few minutes.
First year, 3 instances
Spot saves $3,506 a year
Reserved capacity is billed every hour of the month whether it runs or not. A 1-yr reservation is cheaper once these run more than 17 h a day.
23.8g CO₂ an hour in us-east-1
17.4 kg a month. Grid 322 g per kWh.
Lowest-carbon regions for this type. The dirtiest emits 11× the cleanest.
| $153.30 | $55.92 | 64% | 24 | |
| $153.30 | $57.38 | 63% | 15 | |
| $167.90 | — | 37 | ||
| $174.47 | $55.55 | 68% | 15 | |
| $174.47 | $65.55 | 62% | 23 | |
| $186.15 | $68.84 | 63% | 37 | |
| $188.34 | $75.77 | 60% | 25 | |
| $193.45 | $66.21 | 66% | 58 |
curl "https://prices.cloudadapt.io/api/v1/compute/aws/c3.xlarge?region=us-east-1"
List prices from AWS in US dollars, before discounts, credits and taxes. A month is 730 hours, a year 8,760. AWS pricing page