t3.medium · EC2 Prices

t Burstable

3 Generation 3

medium 2 vCPU · 4 GiB

$24.97/mo

1-yr reserved in Cape Town

On-demand 1-yr 3-yr

2 vCPU

Xeon Skylake, 3.1 GHz

4 GiB

2 GiB per vCPU

EBS only

Local storage

Up to 5 Gbps

Network bandwidth

Up to 2.085 Gbps

EBS bandwidth

x86_64

Architecture

Every way to pay

Prices in Cape Town. Bars are relative to on-demand.

Plan	Monthly	Yearly	Saves
On-demand Pay by the second, no commitment	$39.57	$475
Reserved, 1 yr No upfront, this size and region	$24.97	$300	−37%
Reserved, 3 yr No upfront, this size and region	$17.08	$205	−57%

Plan

Monthly

Yearly

Saves

On-demand

Pay by the second, no commitment

$39.57

$475

Reserved, 1 yr

No upfront, this size and region

$24.97

$300

−37%

Reserved, 3 yr

No upfront, this size and region

$17.08

$205

−57%

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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.

$3.14 nano $6.21 micro $12 small $25 medium $50 large $100 xl $200 2xl

Price in every region

Cheapest in US East (N. Virginia). Moving from Cape Town would save $71 a year per instance.

US East (N. Virginia) us-east-1$19.05 −24%US East (Ohio) us-east-2$19.05 −24%US West (Oregon) us-west-2$19.05 −24%Europe (Stockholm) eu-north-1$19.86 −20%Mexico (Central) mx-central-1$20.00 −20%Asia Pacific (Mumbai) ap-south-1$20.59 −18%Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) ap-south-2$20.59 −18%Europe (Spain) eu-south-2$20.95 −16%Europe (Ireland) eu-west-1$20.95 −16%Canada (Central) ca-central-1$21.32 −15%Canada West (Calgary) ca-west-1$21.32 −15%Europe (London) eu-west-2$21.68 −13%Europe (Paris) eu-west-3$21.68 −13%Asia Pacific (Malaysia) ap-southeast-5$21.83 −13%Asia Pacific (Thailand) ap-southeast-7$21.83 −13%Israel (Tel Aviv) il-central-1$22.05 −12%Europe (Milan) eu-south-1$22.05 −12%

Europe (Frankfurt) eu-central-1$22.05 −12%AWS GovCloud (US-East) us-gov-east-1$22.41 −10%AWS GovCloud (US-West) us-gov-west-1$22.41 −10%US West (N. California) us-west-1$22.78 −9%Asia Pacific (Seoul) ap-northeast-2$22.92 −8%Middle East (UAE) me-central-1$23.07 −8%Middle East (Bahrain) me-south-1$23.07 −8%Asia Pacific (Singapore) ap-southeast-1$24.24 −3%Asia Pacific (Jakarta) ap-southeast-3$24.24 −3%Asia Pacific (Sydney) ap-southeast-2$24.31 −3%Asia Pacific (Melbourne) ap-southeast-4$24.31 −3%Europe (Zurich) eu-central-2$24.31 −3%Africa (Cape Town) af-south-1$24.97 base Asia Pacific (Tokyo) ap-northeast-1$25.04 0%Asia Pacific (Osaka) ap-northeast-3$25.04 0%Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) ap-east-1$26.79 +7%South America (São Paulo) sa-east-1$28.18 +13%

Same shape, other families

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

Instance	Processor	Generation	Local disk	Price/mo	vs t3.medium
t4g.medium	Graviton2	Gen 4	EBS only	$19.93	−20%
t3.medium	Xeon Skylake	Newest	EBS only	$24.97	—
c6g.large	Graviton2	Gen 6	EBS only	$41.98	+68%
c7g.large	Graviton3	Gen 7	EBS only	$44.53	+78%
c5a.large	EPYC Rome	Gen 5	EBS only	$47.45	+90%
c6gd.large	Graviton2	Gen 6	118 GB NVMe	$47.82	+92%
c8g.large	Graviton4	Gen 8	EBS only	$49.03	+96%
c7i-flex.large	Xeon Sapphire Rapids	Gen 7	EBS only	$52.30	+109%
c6i.large	Xeon Ice Lake	Gen 6	EBS only	$52.43	+110%
c5.large	Xeon Skylake	Newest	EBS only	$52.56	+111%
c5ad.large	EPYC Rome	Gen 5	75 GB NVMe	$54.02	+116%
c7i.large	Xeon Sapphire Rapids	Gen 7	EBS only	$55.05	+120%
c5d.large	Xeon Skylake	Gen 5	50 GB NVMe	$59.86	+140%
c6in.large	Xeon Ice Lake	Gen 6	EBS only	$69.93	+180%

Specifications

API name: t3.medium
Processor: Intel Skylake E5 2686 v5
Local storage: EBS only
Family: General purpose
Clock speed: 3.1 GHz
Network: Up to 5 Gbps
Generation: Newest
Architecture: x86_64
EBS bandwidth: Up to 2.085 Gbps
vCPUs: 2
Memory: 4 GiB
GPUs: None