c6id.2xlarge

Analysis

The c6id.2xlarge is a compute optimized instance in the c6id series with 8 vCPUs and 16 GiB of memory on Intel Xeon 8375C (Ice Lake) (up to 3.5 GHz), which makes it compute-heavy at 2 GiB of memory per vCPU.

Within the same generation and size, the c6g.2xlarge on AWS Graviton2 costs $0.2720/hour, 33% less ($95.78 a month), though switching means rebuilding software for arm64. The other variants are the c6a.2xlarge at $0.3060, the c6gd.2xlarge at $0.3072 and the c6i.2xlarge at $0.3400.

Running it in N. Virginia instead of São Paulo saves $162 a month per instance: $0.4032/hour against $0.6258/hour, a 55% spread. It is not offered in Mumbai, so plan around that if you need a presence there.

Reserving it for a year with no upfront payment cuts the Linux rate to $0.2541/hour, which beats on demand once it runs more than 63% of the time; three years brings it to $0.1685/hour, 58% below on demand. Windows Server roughly doubles the bill at $0.7712/hour, because the licence is charged per vCPU.

On demand it costs $0.4032/hour in US East (N. Virginia), $294 a month if left running, which puts it mid-table for compute optimized types at the 58th percentile per vCPU ($0.0504 per vCPU-hour) and the 60th percentile per GiB ($0.0252 per GiB-hour).