The c5a.xlarge is a compute optimised instance in the c5a family with 4 vCPU and 8 GiB of memory on AMD EPYC 7R32. It costs $112.42 a month on-demand in us-east-1 (N. Virginia) and is offered in 20 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 $2,289 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.
15.5g CO₂ an hour in us-east-1
11.3 kg a month. Grid 322 g per kWh.
Lowest-carbon regions for this type. The dirtiest emits 116× the cleanest.
| $68.62 | $40.66 | 41% | 34 | |
| $112.42 | $42.19 | 62% | 10 | |
| $112.42 | $48.84 | 57% | 16 | |
| $112.42 | $31.54 | 72% | 23 | |
| $119.72 | $25.40 | 79% | 0 | |
| $122.64 | $55.48 | 55% | 6 | |
| $125.56 | $36.28 | 71% | 24 | |
| $125.56 | $65.77 | 48% | 15 |
curl "https://prices.cloudadapt.io/api/v1/compute/aws/c5a.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