t2.medium · EC2 Prices

t Burstable

2 Generation 2

medium 2 vCPU · 4 GiB

$0.0378/hr

1-yr reserved in US-West

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 US-West. Bars are relative to on-demand.

Plan	Monthly	Yearly	Saves
On-demand Pay by the second, no commitment	$39.71	$477
Reserved, 1 yr No upfront, this size and region	$27.59	$331	−31%
Reserved, 3 yr No upfront, this size and region	$18.69	$224	−53%

Plan

Monthly

Yearly

Saves

On-demand

Pay by the second, no commitment

$39.71

$477

Reserved, 1 yr

No upfront, this size and region

$27.59

$331

−31%

Reserved, 3 yr

No upfront, this size and region

$18.69

$224

−53%

What will it cost me?

Enter how you plan to run it.

Instances Hours a day Days a month

× 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 $0.009 micro $0.019 small $0.038 medium $0.076 large $0.151 xl $0.302 2xl

Price in every region

Cheapest in US East (Ohio). Moving from US-West would save $80 a year per instance.

US East (Ohio) us-east-2$0.0287 −24%US West (Oregon) us-west-2$0.0287 −24%US East (N. Virginia) us-east-1$0.0287 −24%Asia Pacific (Mumbai) ap-south-1$0.0309 −18%Canada (Central) ca-central-1$0.0319 −16%Asia Pacific (Seoul) ap-northeast-2$0.0344 −9%Europe (Ireland) eu-west-1$0.0355 −6%Asia Pacific (Singapore) ap-southeast-1$0.0363 −4%Europe (London) eu-west-2$0.0363 −4%

Europe (Paris) eu-west-3$0.0369 −2%AWS GovCloud (US-West) us-gov-west-1$0.0378 base Europe (Frankfurt) eu-central-1$0.0382 +1%Asia Pacific (Sydney) ap-southeast-2$0.0392 +4%US West (N. California) us-west-1$0.0401 +6%Asia Pacific (Tokyo) ap-northeast-1$0.0411 +9%Asia Pacific (Osaka) ap-northeast-3$0.0411 +9%South America (São Paulo) sa-east-1$0.0423 +12%

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 US-West, ranked by price.

Instance	Processor	Generation	Local disk	Price/hr	vs t2.medium
t4g.medium	Graviton2	Gen 4	EBS only	$0.0246	−35%
t3a.medium	EPYC Naples	Gen 3	EBS only	$0.0277	−27%
t3.medium	Xeon Skylake	Newest	EBS only	$0.0307	−19%
t2.medium	Xeon Family	Gen 2	EBS only	$0.0378	—
c6g.large	Graviton2	Gen 6	EBS only	$0.0514	+36%
c7g.large	Graviton3	Gen 7	EBS only	$0.0574	+52%
c5a.large	EPYC Rome	Gen 5	EBS only	$0.0580	+53%
c6gd.large	Graviton2	Gen 6	118 GB NVMe	$0.0585	+55%
c8g.large	Graviton4	Gen 8	EBS only	$0.0631	+67%
c5.large	Xeon Skylake	Newest	EBS only	$0.0640	+69%
c6gn.large	Graviton2	Gen 6	EBS only	$0.0655	+73%
c7i-flex.large	Xeon Sapphire Rapids	Gen 7	EBS only	$0.0673	+78%
c6i.large	Xeon Ice Lake	Gen 6	EBS only	$0.0675	+78%
c7gd.large	Graviton3	Gen 7	118 GB NVMe	$0.0691	+83%
c7i.large	Xeon Sapphire Rapids	Gen 7	EBS only	$0.0708	+87%
c5d.large	Xeon Skylake	Gen 5	50 GB NVMe	$0.0730	+93%
c6id.large	Xeon Ice Lake	Gen 6	118 GB NVMe	$0.0767	+103%
c6in.large	Xeon Ice Lake	Gen 6	EBS only	$0.0860	+128%

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