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c6g.2xlarge pricing and specs in EU (Ireland)

8 vCPU · 16 GiB · Up to 10 Gigabit · AWS Graviton2 Processor Graviton

$0.2918/hour on-demand · $213/month (Linux, Shared)

c6g.2xlarge is a compute-optimized EC2 instance with 8 vCPU and 16 GiB, generation 6 of the c family on AWS Graviton (Arm). On-demand it costs $0.2918 an hour, about $213 a month if it runs all month. A one-year commitment with nothing up front works out at $0.1932 an hour and pays for itself above roughly 483 hours a month; below that, on-demand is cheaper. The three-year options go down to $0.1155 an hour, 60% below on-demand. The newer c7g.2xlarge offers the same size for $0.3101 an hour, 6% more. Across regions the cheapest place to run c6g.2xlarge is Asia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1) at $0.1704 an hour, 42% below EU (Ireland).

Pricing by OS (hourly, USD, Shared)

OptionLinuxWindowsRHELSUSE
On-Demand$0.2918—$0.4070$0.4168
Spot$0.1308———
1y Std RI NU$0.1932—$0.3084$0.2532
1y Std RI PU$0.1840—$0.2992$0.2439
1y Std RI AU$0.1804—$0.2955$0.2403
3y Std RI NU$0.1327—$0.2479$0.1867
3y Std RI PU$0.1229—$0.2381$0.1768
3y Std RI AU$0.1155—$0.2307$0.1695
1y Conv RI NU$0.2230—$0.3382$0.2830
3y Conv RI NU$0.1525—$0.2677$0.2065
1y Compute SP NU$0.2230—$0.3382$0.2829
3y Compute SP NU$0.1525—$0.2677$0.2065
1y EC2 SP NU$0.1932—$0.3084$0.2531
3y EC2 SP NU$0.1327—$0.2479$0.1867

Spot by AZ (7-day p50, Linux): eu-west-1c $0.1279 · eu-west-1a $0.1308 · eu-west-1b $0.1380

Newer generations of the same size

Same family letter and size in a newer generation, ranked by price. “vCPU per $” uses vCPU as the performance proxy — newer chips usually add more, so it is a floor.

Already Graviton
Type$/hPrice ΔvCPU per $ ΔSaves / mo
c7g.2xlarge Graviton$0.3101+6%-6%$-13
c6a.2xlarge arch change$0.3283+13%-11%$-27
c8g.2xlarge Graviton$0.3411+17%-14%$-36
c6gd.2xlarge Graviton$0.3488+20%-16%$-42
c7i-flex.2xlarge arch change$0.3639+25%-20%$-53
c6i.2xlarge arch change$0.3648+25%-20%$-53
c8i-flex.2xlarge arch change$0.3821+31%-24%$-66
c7i.2xlarge arch change$0.3830+31%-24%$-67

Cheapest regions for c6g.2xlarge

RegionOn-Demand $/hvs eu-west-1Saves / mo
Asia Pacific (Mumbai) ap-south-1$0.1704-42%$89
Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) ap-south-2$0.1704-42%$89
Asia Pacific (Malaysia) ap-southeast-5$0.2666-9%$18
Asia Pacific (Thailand) ap-southeast-7$0.2666-9%$18
US East (N. Virginia) us-east-1$0.2720-7%$14
US East (Ohio) us-east-2$0.2720-7%$14

Caveat: instance price is only part of the bill. Cross-region and internet data transfer, latency to your users, data-residency rules and service availability can outweigh a few percent on compute.

Price history (eu-west-1)

Daily snapshots since the catalog started tracking this type; a row is added whenever a headline price changes.

DateOD LinuxOD Windows1y RI3y RISpot p50
2026-10-05$0.2918—$0.1932$0.1327$0.1308
2026-10-03$0.2918—$0.1932$0.1327$0.1309
2026-10-02$0.2918—$0.1932$0.1327$0.1311
2026-10-01$0.2918—$0.1932$0.1327$0.1314
2026-09-30$0.2918—$0.1932$0.1327$0.1319
2026-09-29$0.2918—$0.1932$0.1327$0.1323
2026-09-28$0.2918—$0.1932$0.1327$0.1326
2026-09-27$0.2918—$0.1932$0.1327$0.1333
2026-09-24$0.2918—$0.1932$0.1327$0.1338
2026-09-23$0.2918—$0.1932$0.1327$0.1341
2026-09-22$0.2918—$0.1932$0.1327$0.1343

All attributes

vCPU
8
Cores / threads per core
8 / 1
Memory
16 GiB
Memory per vCPU
2.00 GiB
Processor
AWS Graviton2 Processor
Architecture
arm64
Sustained clock
2.5 GHz
Hypervisor
nitro
Generation
Current
Burstable
No
Bare metal
No
Free tier eligible
No
Network performance
Up to 10 Gigabit
Network baseline / burst
2.5 / 10.0 Gbps
Max ENIs × IPv4 per ENI
4 × 15
IPv6 / ENA / EFA
IPv6 / ENA / —
EBS optimized
Yes
EBS bandwidth (baseline / max)
2375 / 4750 Mbps
EBS IOPS (baseline / max)
12,000 / 20000
EBS NVMe
required
Instance storage
EBS only
GPU
—
Placement groups
cluster, partition, spread
Hibernation / Nitro Enclaves
Yes / Yes
Dedicated hosts
Supported
Boot modes
uefi
Spot supported
Yes

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