EC2 c4 instance prices

The c4 series is a compute optimized EC2 line running on Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3 (Haswell). It has 5 sizes, from the c4.large with 2 vCPUs and 3.75 GiB to the c4.8xlarge with 36 vCPUs and 60 GiB, and it is compute-heavy with a median of 1.9 GiB per vCPU.

In US East the Linux on-demand price runs from $0.1000/hour to $1.59/hour, or $73.00 to $1,161 a month. The median price per vCPU-hour across the series is $0.0498.

Price per vCPU-hour is not flat across the series: the c4.8xlarge is the cheapest per vCPU at $0.0442 and the c4.large the dearest at $0.0500, a 13% gap, so the size you choose changes your unit cost as well as your total. All sizes are sold in the same 12 of the 12 regions we track. Each size below links to a page with prices in every tracked region, reserved-instance savings, Windows pricing and cheaper alternatives of the same shape.