t3.medium · EC2 Prices

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3 Generation 3

medium 2 vCPU · 4 GiB

$25.04/mo

1-yr reserved in Tokyo

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 Tokyo. 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	$25.04	$300	−37%
Reserved, 3 yr No upfront, this size and region	$17.16	$206	−57%

Plan

Monthly

Yearly

Saves

On-demand

Pay by the second, no commitment

$39.71

$477

Reserved, 1 yr

No upfront, this size and region

$25.04

$300

−37%

Reserved, 3 yr

No upfront, this size and region

$17.16

$206

−57%

What will it cost me?

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× t3.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.

$3.14 nano $6.28 micro $12 small $25 medium $50 large $100 xl $200 2xl

Price in every region

Cheapest in US East (N. Virginia). Moving from Tokyo would save $72 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 −21%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 0%Asia Pacific (Tokyo) ap-northeast-1$25.04 base 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 Tokyo, ranked by price.

Instance	Processor	Generation	Local disk	Price/mo	vs t3.medium
t4g.medium	Graviton2	Gen 4	EBS only	$19.86	−21%
t3a.medium	EPYC Naples	Gen 3	EBS only	$22.48	−10%
t3.medium	Xeon Skylake	Newest	EBS only	$25.04	—
a1.large	Graviton	Previous	EBS only	$29.49	+18%
t2.medium	Xeon Family	Gen 2	EBS only	$30.00	+20%
c6g.large	Graviton2	Gen 6	EBS only	$39.35	+57%
c7g.large	Graviton3	Gen 7	EBS only	$43.80	+75%
c5a.large	EPYC Rome	Gen 5	EBS only	$43.80	+75%
c6gd.large	Graviton2	Gen 6	118 GB NVMe	$45.19	+80%
c6a.large	EPYC Milan	Gen 6	EBS only	$46.36	+85%
c8g.large	Graviton4	Gen 8	EBS only	$48.17	+92%
c5.large	Xeon Skylake	Newest	EBS only	$48.91	+95%
c6gn.large	Graviton2	Gen 6	EBS only	$49.82	+99%
c7i-flex.large	Xeon Sapphire Rapids	Gen 7	EBS only	$51.38	+105%
c6i.large	Xeon Ice Lake	Gen 6	EBS only	$51.51	+106%
c7i.large	Xeon Sapphire Rapids	Gen 7	EBS only	$54.09	+116%
c7gd.large	Graviton3	Gen 7	118 GB NVMe	$55.41	+121%
c5d.large	Xeon Skylake	Gen 5	50 GB NVMe	$56.21	+124%
c6id.large	Xeon Ice Lake	Gen 6	118 GB NVMe	$61.57	+146%
c7a.large	EPYC Genoa	Gen 7	EBS only	$62.20	+148%
c6in.large	Xeon Ice Lake	Gen 6	EBS only	$65.67	+162%
c7gn.large	Graviton3	Gen 7	EBS only	$71.76	+187%

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