The c5ad.2xlarge is a compute optimised instance in the c5ad family with 8 vCPU and 16 GiB of memory on AMD EPYC 7R32. It costs $251.12 a month on-demand in us-east-1 (N. Virginia) and is offered in 11 regions.
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First year, 3 instances
3-yr reserved saves $5,125 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.
59.8g CO₂ an hour in us-east-1
43.6 kg a month. Grid 322 g per kWh.
Lowest-carbon regions for this type. The dirtiest emits 13× the cleanest.
| $251.12 | $106.87 | 57% | 38 | |
| $251.12 | $104.24 | 58% | 88 | |
| $251.12 | $112.64 | 55% | 60 | |
| $286.16 | $146.73 | 49% | 59 | |
| $292.00 | $140.23 | 52% | 63 | |
| $294.92 | $139.87 | 53% | 76 | |
| $300.76 | $98.92 | 67% | 43 | |
| $315.36 | — | 136 |
curl "https://prices.cloudadapt.io/api/v1/compute/aws/c5ad.2xlarge?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