The c5ad.xlarge is a compute optimised instance in the c5ad family with 4 vCPU and 8 GiB of memory on AMD EPYC 7R32. It costs $125.56 a month on-demand in us-east-1 (N. Virginia) and is offered in 11 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 $2,778 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 13× the cleanest.
| $125.56 | $48.40 | 61% | 16 | |
| $125.56 | $49.13 | 61% | 10 | |
| $125.56 | $40.44 | 68% | 23 | |
| $143.08 | $67.38 | 53% | 15 | |
| $146.00 | $69.13 | 53% | 16 | |
| $147.46 | $62.34 | 58% | 20 | |
| $150.38 | $44.02 | 71% | 11 | |
| $157.68 | — | 35 |
curl "https://prices.cloudadapt.io/api/v1/compute/aws/c5ad.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