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Amazon makes its latest high-compute instances generally available.
Amazon Web Services announced today that its latest high-performance cloud virtual machines are generally available for customers. That means businesses will be able to spin up C5 instances in the cloud that are built to handle applications requiring large amounts of compute capacity.

For example, the new instances will be well-suited to applications like video encoding, running multiplayer going systems, and serving advertisements. These instances are designed to offer higher performance at a lower price than their predecessors, the C4 line.

Customers will be able to choose from instances with 2, 4, 8, 16, 36, or 72 virtual CPUs, which provides greater scale-up capabilities than the C4 line, which topped out at 36 vCPUs per instance. At the same time, a basic C5 instance costs 8.5 cents per hour when served from AWS’s Northern Virginia region, compared to 10 cents per hour for a C4 instance.