t2.medium · EC2 Prices

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2 Generation 2

medium 2 vCPU · 4 GiB

$0.0411/hr

1-yr reserved in Tokyo

On-demand 1-yr 3-yr

2 vCPU

Xeon Family, Up to 3.3 GHz

4 GiB

2 GiB per vCPU

EBS only

Local storage

Low to Moderate

Network bandwidth

—

EBS bandwidth

x86_64

Architecture

Every way to pay

Prices in Tokyo. Bars are relative to on-demand.

Plan	Monthly	Yearly	Saves
On-demand Pay by the second, no commitment	$44.38	$533
Reserved, 1 yr No upfront, this size and region	$30.00	$360	−32%
Reserved, 3 yr No upfront, this size and region	$21.90	$263	−51%

Plan

Monthly

Yearly

Saves

On-demand

Pay by the second, no commitment

$44.38

$533

Reserved, 1 yr

No upfront, this size and region

$30.00

$360

−32%

Reserved, 3 yr

No upfront, this size and region

$21.90

$263

−51%

What will it cost me?

Enter how you plan to run it.

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× t2.medium, on-demand

/mo

a year

You run these most of the time. A 1-year reservation bills every hour, and would still cost /mo.

Same usage on each plan	Monthly	Yearly
On-demand
Reserved 1 yr
Reserved 3 yr

Reservations bill every hour of the month, whether the instance runs or not.

Other sizes in this family

Price roughly doubles with each step. Pick a size to open it.

$0.005 nano $0.010 micro $0.021 small $0.041 medium $0.082 large $0.164 xl $0.329 2xl

Price in every region

Cheapest in US East (Ohio). Moving from Tokyo would save $109 a year per instance.

US East (Ohio) us-east-2$0.0287 −30%US West (Oregon) us-west-2$0.0287 −30%US East (N. Virginia) us-east-1$0.0287 −30%Asia Pacific (Mumbai) ap-south-1$0.0309 −25%Canada (Central) ca-central-1$0.0319 −22%Asia Pacific (Seoul) ap-northeast-2$0.0344 −16%Europe (Ireland) eu-west-1$0.0355 −14%Asia Pacific (Singapore) ap-southeast-1$0.0363 −12%Europe (London) eu-west-2$0.0363 −12%

Europe (Paris) eu-west-3$0.0369 −10%AWS GovCloud (US-West) us-gov-west-1$0.0378 −8%Europe (Frankfurt) eu-central-1$0.0382 −7%Asia Pacific (Sydney) ap-southeast-2$0.0392 −5%US West (N. California) us-west-1$0.0401 −2%Asia Pacific (Tokyo) ap-northeast-1$0.0411 base Asia Pacific (Osaka) ap-northeast-3$0.0411 0%South America (São Paulo) sa-east-1$0.0423 +3%

Not offered in Calgary , Central , US-East , Zurich , Stockholm , Milan , Spain , Hyderabad , Jakarta , Melbourne , Malaysia , New Zealand , Thailand , Hong Kong , Taipei , UAE , Bahrain , Tel Aviv , Cape Town .

Same shape, other families

Every instance with 2 vCPU · 4 GiB in Tokyo, ranked by price.

Instance	Processor	Generation	Local disk	Price/hr	vs t2.medium
t4g.medium	Graviton2	Gen 4	EBS only	$0.0272	−34%
t3a.medium	EPYC Naples	Gen 3	EBS only	$0.0308	−25%
t3.medium	Xeon Skylake	Newest	EBS only	$0.0343	−17%
a1.large	Graviton	Previous	EBS only	$0.0404	−2%
t2.medium	Xeon Family	Gen 2	EBS only	$0.0411	—
c6g.large	Graviton2	Gen 6	EBS only	$0.0539	+31%
c7g.large	Graviton3	Gen 7	EBS only	$0.0600	+46%
c5a.large	EPYC Rome	Gen 5	EBS only	$0.0600	+46%
c6gd.large	Graviton2	Gen 6	118 GB NVMe	$0.0619	+51%
c6a.large	EPYC Milan	Gen 6	EBS only	$0.0635	+55%
c8g.large	Graviton4	Gen 8	EBS only	$0.0660	+61%
c5.large	Xeon Skylake	Newest	EBS only	$0.0670	+63%
c6gn.large	Graviton2	Gen 6	EBS only	$0.0683	+66%
c7i-flex.large	Xeon Sapphire Rapids	Gen 7	EBS only	$0.0704	+71%
c6i.large	Xeon Ice Lake	Gen 6	EBS only	$0.0706	+72%
c7i.large	Xeon Sapphire Rapids	Gen 7	EBS only	$0.0741	+80%
c7gd.large	Graviton3	Gen 7	118 GB NVMe	$0.0759	+85%
c5d.large	Xeon Skylake	Gen 5	50 GB NVMe	$0.0770	+87%
c6id.large	Xeon Ice Lake	Gen 6	118 GB NVMe	$0.0843	+105%
c7a.large	EPYC Genoa	Gen 7	EBS only	$0.0852	+107%
c6in.large	Xeon Ice Lake	Gen 6	EBS only	$0.0900	+119%
c7gn.large	Graviton3	Gen 7	EBS only	$0.0983	+139%

Specifications

API name: t2.medium
Processor: Intel Xeon Family
Local storage: EBS only
Family: General purpose
Clock speed: Up to 3.3 GHz
Network: Low to Moderate
Generation: Gen 2
Architecture: x86_64
EBS bandwidth: —
vCPUs: 2
Memory: 4 GiB
GPUs: None