The g5.2xlarge is a GPU instance in the g5 family with 8 vCPU and 32 GiB of memory on AMD EPYC 7R32, plus 1× A10G. It costs $884.76 a month on-demand in us-east-2 (Ohio) and is offered in 19 regions.
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Jun 2023
First listed in the AWS price list archive
The list price has never changed in us-east-2 since then.
Archive dates are the month of the AWS price list version that first carried the price.
Last moved 13 h ago, 24 Oct 2026 +1.0%
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| Pod requests | Pods | Per pod, a month |
|---|---|---|
| 100m CPU, 128 MiB | 79cpu | $11.20 |
| 250m CPU, 512 MiB | 31cpu | $28.54 |
| 500m CPU, 1 GiB | 15cpu | $58.98 |
| 1 CPU, 4 GiB | 7cpu | $126.39 |
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
3-yr reserved saves $18,092 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.
44.2g CO₂ an hour in us-east-2
32.2 kg a month. Grid 475 g per kWh.
Lowest-carbon regions for this type. The dirtiest emits 101× the cleanest.
| $884.76 | $320.32 | 64% | 19 | |
| $884.76 | $459.53 | 48% | 44 | |
| $884.76 | $505.96 | 43% | 30 | |
| $932.25 | $632.62 | 32% | 14 | |
| $938.41 | $204.11 | 78% | 1 | |
| $982.38 | $982.36 | 0% | 12 | |
| $987.66 | $614.37 | 38% | 29 | |
| $1,037.05 | $324.70 | 69% | 53 |
curl "https://prices.cloudadapt.io/api/v1/compute/aws/g5.2xlarge?region=us-east-2"
List prices from AWS in US dollars, before discounts, credits and taxes. A month is 730 hours, a year 8,760. AWS pricing page