c7g.large

Analysis

The c7g.large is a compute optimized instance in the c7g series with 2 vCPUs and 4 GiB of memory on AWS Graviton3 (up to 2.5 GHz), which makes it compute-heavy at 2 GiB of memory per vCPU.

Running it in Mumbai instead of São Paulo saves $45.26 a month per instance: $0.0491/hour against $0.1111/hour, a 126% spread.

At $0.0725/hour on demand in US East (N. Virginia), about $52.92 a month, the c7g.large is one of the cheaper ways to buy compute optimized capacity: only 5% of the 291 current compute optimized types cost less per vCPU-hour than its $0.0362.

It is the cheapest of the 5 processor variants AWS sells at this size and generation. The c7a.large on AMD EPYC 9R14 costs 42% more, and the c7i-flex.large, the c7i.large and the c7gd.large also sit above it.

Compared with the previous generation, it costs 6.6% more than the c6g.large on AWS Graviton2 ($3.28 more a month per instance), in exchange for the newer processor. The newer c8g.large on AWS Graviton4 is 10% dearer at $0.0798/hour.

Looking beyond its own line, 6 of 36 current types with 2 vCPUs and similar memory are cheaper. The cheapest of those is the t4g.medium on AWS Graviton2 at $0.0336/hour. It is burstable, so it only suits workloads that do not run the CPU flat out.