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c6i.xlarge price in ca-central-1 (Central): per hour & per month
Updated 2026-10-19
$25,000 in credits runs one c6i.xlarge in Canada (Central) for about 184 months (credits usually expire in 12 to 24).
c6i.xlarge (4 vCPU, 8 GiB, Intel Xeon 8375C (Ice Lake)) costs $0.186 per hour on demand in Canada (Central), or $136 for a 730-hour month on Linux.
x86 compute-intensive workloads such as batch jobs, build servers, game servers and CPU inference requiring Intel instructions (AVX-512). Sustained high CPU with 8 GiB RAM.
- On demand
- $0.186/h
- Monthly (730h)
- $136
- Specs
- 4 vCPU, 8 GiB, Intel Xeon 8375C (Ice Lake)
Is c6i.xlarge right for you?
What 8 GiB of RAM runs
- ✓ MVP backend with a few hundred users
- ✓ Single Docker service or small Kubernetes node
- ✓ CI runner, internal tools
- ✕ Large in-memory caches
- ✕ Production database with growing data
- ✕ Video or ML processing
Full-time CPU
No burst limits: all 4 vCPUs are yours 100% of the time, so it suits steady traffic, builds and background jobs.
x86 compatibility
Intel Xeon 8375C (Ice Lake) runs any x86 software unchanged. If your stack supports Arm, the Graviton version is usually around 20% cheaper.
About Canada (Central)
For Canadian data residency, priced slightly above US regions.
Moving data between availability zones costs about $0.01/GB each way.
The real bill for a small production setup
The server is rarely the biggest line. A typical setup behind a load balancer in a private network:
About per month$197
Load balancer: $0.02475/h plus about $0.44/month in usage for 1 million requests. NAT gateway: $0.05/h plus $0.05/GB processed. Moving data between availability zones adds $0.01/GB each way. Skip the NAT gateway with public subnets or VPC endpoints to save $37/month. Prices for Canada (Central) from the AWS Price List API (2026-10-19). Both are covered by AWS credits.
Credits expire before you can use them all
$25,000 would run one c6i.xlarge for about 15.3 years, but credits usually expire in 12 to 24 months. Spend the surplus on a managed database, staging environments or load testing instead of leaving it unused.
Credits pay on-demand and Spot usage, not upfront Savings Plan or Reserved Instance commitments. Buy commitments only once credits run low.
Database, disk and traffic
Managed database vs running it yourself
A managed PostgreSQL database (RDS db.t4g.medium, single zone, 20 GB) costs about $53.64/month in Canada (Central).
Running Postgres yourself on a second c6i.xlarge costs about $138/month, but you handle backups, upgrades and failover.
Both are paid by AWS credits. Upfront fees for reserved databases are not.
Disk speed limits
Steady disk speed: 1,250 Mbps and 6,000 IOPS.
Short bursts up to 10,000 Mbps and 40,000 IOPS, for about 30 minutes a day, then it drops back.
A busy database or heavy file processing may hit this limit before CPU or memory.
Sending 1 TB a month to users
Straight from the server: about $81.00/month ($0.09/GB after the first 100 GB).
Through CloudFront: $0. Server-to-CloudFront traffic is free and the first 1 TB out each month is free (then $0.085/GB for Canada edges).
RDS, CloudFront and transfer prices from the AWS Price List API; VPS prices from Hetzner and DigitalOcean, excluding VAT (2026-10-19).
Full monthly bill calculator
Instances rarely run alone. Add disk, a public IP and traffic to see the real bill and how long credits last.
Compute ($0.1860/h)$136
gp3 storage ($0.0880/GB)$3
Public IPv4 ($0.0050/h)$4
Data out (after 100 GB free)$0
Monthly total$142
Credits last
$1,0007.0 mo
$5,00035 mo
$25,00099+ mo
$100,00099+ mo
Credits usually expire in 12 to 24 months, so long runways are capped by expiry.
On demand vs Savings Plans, Reserved, Spot and Windows
| Pricing | Per hour | Per month | Saving | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| On demand | $0.1860 | $136 | 0% | Credits apply |
| Savings Plan, 1 year | $0.1411 | $103 | 24% | No upfront; credits can't buy the commitment |
| Savings Plan, 3-yr | $0.0896 | $65 | 52% | Compute Savings Plan, no upfront; credits can't buy the commitment |
| Reserved Instance, 3-yr | $0.0817 | $60 | 56% | Standard RI, no upfront; credits can't buy the commitment |
| Spot (average) | $0.0923 | $67 | 50% | Can be interrupted; credits apply |
| Windows on demand | $0.3700 | $270 | +99% vs Linux | Includes the Windows licence; credits apply |
c6i.xlarge in other regions
| Region | Per hour | Per month | vs here | $25k lasts |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US East (N. Virginia)us-east-1 | $0.1700 | $124 | -9% | 201 mo |
| US East (Ohio)us-east-2 | $0.1700 | $124 | -9% | 201 mo |
| US West (Oregon)us-west-2 | $0.1700 | $124 | -9% | 201 mo |
| Asia Pacific (Mumbai)ap-south-1 | $0.1700 | $124 | -9% | 201 mo |
| EU (Stockholm)eu-north-1 | $0.1820 | $133 | -2% | 188 mo |
| EU (Ireland)eu-west-1 | $0.1824 | $133 | -2% | 188 mo |
| Canada (Central)ca-central-1 | $0.1860 | $136 | — | 184 mo |
| EU (Frankfurt)eu-central-1 | $0.1940 | $142 | +4% | 177 mo |
| Asia Pacific (Singapore)ap-southeast-1 | $0.1960 | $143 | +5% | 175 mo |
| EU (London)eu-west-2 | $0.2020 | $147 | +9% | 170 mo |
| Asia Pacific (Tokyo)ap-northeast-1 | $0.2140 | $156 | +15% | 160 mo |
| Asia Pacific (Sydney)ap-southeast-2 | $0.2220 | $162 | +19% | 154 mo |
| Africa (Cape Town)af-south-1 | $0.2280 | $166 | +23% | 150 mo |
| South America (Sao Paulo)sa-east-1 | $0.2620 | $191 | +41% | 131 mo |
Right-size it
Linux, shared tenancy, from the AWS Price List API (2026-10-19). Network: Up to 12.5 Gbps. Taxes not included. AWS EC2 pricing
c6i.xlarge in other regions
Alternatives in ca-central-1
- c7g.xlarge · $0.1581/h
- t4g.xlarge · 4 vCPU, 16 GiB · $0.1472/h
- c7g.xlarge · 4 vCPU, 8 GiB · $0.1581/h
- c8g.xlarge · 4 vCPU, 8 GiB · $0.1739/h
- m7g.xlarge · 4 vCPU, 16 GiB · $0.1819/h
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Questions
How much does c6i.xlarge cost per month in ca-central-1?
$136 on demand for Linux running all 730 hours, before storage, public IPv4 and data transfer.
Can AWS credits pay for c6i.xlarge?
Yes. Activate credits cover on-demand EC2 usage. They don't cover upfront Reserved Instances or Savings Plan commitments.
Is a Savings Plan worth it for c6i.xlarge?
A 1-year Savings Plan brings it to $0.1411/h and 3 years to $0.0896/h. While credits last, on demand is usually better because credits can't buy the commitment.
Prices and credit amounts are estimates and may change. Check AWS for current terms.
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