t2.medium · EC2 Prices

t Burstable

2 Generation 2

medium 2 vCPU · 4 GiB

$23.29/mo

1-yr reserved in Central

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 Central. Bars are relative to on-demand.

Plan	Monthly	Yearly	Saves
On-demand Pay by the second, no commitment	$37.38	$449
Reserved, 1 yr No upfront, this size and region	$23.29	$279	−38%
Reserved, 3 yr No upfront, this size and region	$16.21	$194	−57%

Plan

Monthly

Yearly

Saves

On-demand

Pay by the second, no commitment

$37.38

$449

Reserved, 1 yr

No upfront, this size and region

$23.29

$279

−38%

Reserved, 3 yr

No upfront, this size and region

$16.21

$194

−57%

What will it cost me?

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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.

$2.92 nano $5.84 micro $12 small $23 medium $47 large $93 xl $186 2xl

Price in every region

Cheapest in US East (Ohio). Moving from Central would save $28 a year per instance.

US East (Ohio) us-east-2$20.95 −10%US West (Oregon) us-west-2$20.95 −10%US East (N. Virginia) us-east-1$20.95 −10%Asia Pacific (Mumbai) ap-south-1$22.56 −3%Canada (Central) ca-central-1$23.29 base Asia Pacific (Seoul) ap-northeast-2$25.11 +8%Europe (Ireland) eu-west-1$25.91 +11%Asia Pacific (Singapore) ap-southeast-1$26.50 +14%Europe (London) eu-west-2$26.50 +14%

Europe (Paris) eu-west-3$26.94 +16%AWS GovCloud (US-West) us-gov-west-1$27.59 +18%Europe (Frankfurt) eu-central-1$27.89 +20%Asia Pacific (Sydney) ap-southeast-2$28.62 +23%US West (N. California) us-west-1$29.27 +26%Asia Pacific (Tokyo) ap-northeast-1$30.00 +29%Asia Pacific (Osaka) ap-northeast-3$30.00 +29%South America (São Paulo) sa-east-1$30.88 +33%

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 Central, ranked by price.

Instance	Processor	Generation	Local disk	Price/mo	vs t2.medium
t4g.medium	Graviton2	Gen 4	EBS only	$16.94	−27%
t3a.medium	EPYC Naples	Gen 3	EBS only	$19.20	−18%
t3.medium	Xeon Skylake	Newest	EBS only	$21.32	−8%
t2.medium	Xeon Family	Gen 2	EBS only	$23.29	—
c6g.large	Graviton2	Gen 6	EBS only	$34.24	+47%
c7g.large	Graviton3	Gen 7	EBS only	$38.32	+65%
c5a.large	EPYC Rome	Gen 5	EBS only	$38.69	+66%
c6gd.large	Graviton2	Gen 6	118 GB NVMe	$38.98	+67%
c6a.large	EPYC Milan	Gen 6	EBS only	$40.57	+74%
c8g.large	Graviton4	Gen 8	EBS only	$42.14	+81%
c5.large	Xeon Skylake	Newest	EBS only	$43.07	+85%
c6gn.large	Graviton2	Gen 6	EBS only	$43.35	+86%
c7i-flex.large	Xeon Sapphire Rapids	Gen 7	EBS only	$44.95	+93%
c6i.large	Xeon Ice Lake	Gen 6	EBS only	$45.07	+94%
c7gd.large	Graviton3	Gen 7	118 GB NVMe	$46.06	+98%
c7i.large	Xeon Sapphire Rapids	Gen 7	EBS only	$47.33	+103%
c5d.large	Xeon Skylake	Gen 5	50 GB NVMe	$48.91	+110%
c6id.large	Xeon Ice Lake	Gen 6	118 GB NVMe	$51.19	+120%
c6in.large	Xeon Ice Lake	Gen 6	EBS only	$56.98	+145%

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