The c5a.large is a compute optimised instance in the c5a family with 2 vCPU and 4 GiB of memory on AMD EPYC 7R32. It costs $56.21 a month on-demand in us-east-1 (N. Virginia) and is offered in 20 regions.
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Jun 2020
First listed in the AWS price list archive
The list price has never changed in us-east-1 since then.
Archive dates are the month of the AWS price list version that first carried the price.
Last moved 8 h ago, 24 Oct 2026 +0.7%
Moves a little: a 2% range over 30 days, 4 moves.
Tracked since 1 Mar 2026, read every few minutes.
| Pod requests | Pods | Per pod, a month |
|---|---|---|
| 100m CPU, 128 MiB | 19cpu | $2.96 |
| 250m CPU, 512 MiB | 5memory | $11.24 |
| 500m CPU, 1 GiB | 2memory | $28.11 |
| 1 CPU, 4 GiB | 0 | — |
Node share from GKE's published kube-reserved formula plus a 100 MiB eviction threshold; EKS and AKS keep similar amounts. DaemonSets take more on top. At most 110 pods per node, the kubelet default.
First year, 3 instances
Spot saves $1,233 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 16 h a day.
4.2g CO₂ an hour in us-east-1
3 kg a month. Grid 322 g per kWh.
Lowest-carbon regions for this type. The dirtiest emits 116× the cleanest.
| $34.31 | $14.53 | 58% | 9 | |
| $56.21 | $21.97 | 61% | 4 | |
| $56.21 | $18.32 | 67% | 3 | |
| $56.21 | $14.45 | 74% | 6 | |
| $59.86 | $8.69 | 85% | 0 | |
| $61.32 | $24.31 | 60% | 2 | |
| $62.78 | $28.84 | 54% | 4 | |
| $62.78 | $13.65 | 78% | 6 |
curl "https://prices.cloudadapt.io/api/v1/compute/aws/c5a.large?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