t3.medium · EC2 Prices

t Burstable

3 Generation 3

medium 2 vCPU · 4 GiB

$15.40/mo

3-yr reserved in US-East

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

Plan	Monthly	Yearly	Saves
On-demand Pay by the second, no commitment	$35.62	$427
Reserved, 1 yr No upfront, this size and region	$22.41	$269	−37%
Reserved, 3 yr No upfront, this size and region	$15.40	$185	−57%

Plan

Monthly

Yearly

Saves

On-demand

Pay by the second, no commitment

$35.62

$427

Reserved, 1 yr

No upfront, this size and region

$22.41

$269

−37%

Reserved, 3 yr

No upfront, this size and region

$15.40

$185

−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.

$1.90 nano $3.87 micro $7.67 small $15 medium $31 large $62 xl $123 2xl

Price in every region

Cheapest in US East (N. Virginia). Moving from US-East would save $27 a year per instance.

US East (N. Virginia) us-east-1$13.14 −15%US East (Ohio) us-east-2$13.14 −15%US West (Oregon) us-west-2$13.14 −15%Europe (Stockholm) eu-north-1$13.65 −11%Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) ap-south-2$13.80 −10%Asia Pacific (Mumbai) ap-south-1$13.80 −10%Mexico (Central) mx-central-1$13.80 −10%Europe (Spain) eu-south-2$14.38 −7%Europe (Ireland) eu-west-1$14.38 −7%Canada (Central) ca-central-1$14.60 −5%Canada West (Calgary) ca-west-1$14.60 −5%Asia Pacific (Malaysia) ap-southeast-5$14.67 −5%Asia Pacific (Thailand) ap-southeast-7$14.67 −5%Europe (London) eu-west-2$14.89 −3%Europe (Paris) eu-west-3$14.89 −3%Israel (Tel Aviv) il-central-1$15.11 −2%Europe (Milan) eu-south-1$15.11 −2%

Europe (Frankfurt) eu-central-1$15.11 −2%AWS GovCloud (US-East) us-gov-east-1$15.40 base AWS GovCloud (US-West) us-gov-west-1$15.40 0%US West (N. California) us-west-1$15.62 +1%Middle East (UAE) me-central-1$15.84 +3%Middle East (Bahrain) me-south-1$15.84 +3%Asia Pacific (Singapore) ap-southeast-1$16.35 +6%Asia Pacific (Jakarta) ap-southeast-3$16.35 +6%Asia Pacific (Seoul) ap-northeast-2$16.43 +7%Asia Pacific (Sydney) ap-southeast-2$16.64 +8%Asia Pacific (Melbourne) ap-southeast-4$16.64 +8%Europe (Zurich) eu-central-2$16.64 +8%Africa (Cape Town) af-south-1$17.08 +11%Asia Pacific (Tokyo) ap-northeast-1$17.16 +11%Asia Pacific (Osaka) ap-northeast-3$17.16 +11%Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) ap-east-1$18.03 +17%South America (São Paulo) sa-east-1$21.17 +37%

Same shape, other families

Every instance with 2 vCPU · 4 GiB in US-East, ranked by price.

Instance	Processor	Generation	Local disk	Price/mo	vs t3.medium
t4g.medium	Graviton2	Gen 4	EBS only	$13.80	−10%
t3a.medium	EPYC Naples	Gen 3	EBS only	$13.87	−10%
t3.medium	Xeon Skylake	Newest	EBS only	$15.40	—
c6g.large	Graviton2	Gen 6	EBS only	$25.77	+67%
c7g.large	Graviton3	Gen 7	EBS only	$26.50	+72%
c6gd.large	Graviton2	Gen 6	118 GB NVMe	$27.59	+79%
c8g.large	Graviton4	Gen 8	EBS only	$29.13	+89%
c5a.large	EPYC Rome	Gen 5	EBS only	$29.20	+90%
c5.large	Xeon Skylake	Newest	EBS only	$29.93	+94%
c6i.large	Xeon Ice Lake	Gen 6	EBS only	$31.15	+102%
c7gd.large	Graviton3	Gen 7	118 GB NVMe	$32.63	+112%
c6gn.large	Graviton2	Gen 6	EBS only	$32.64	+112%
c7i.large	Xeon Sapphire Rapids	Gen 7	EBS only	$32.71	+112%
c5d.large	Xeon Skylake	Gen 5	50 GB NVMe	$34.31	+123%
c6in.large	Xeon Ice Lake	Gen 6	EBS only	$34.36	+123%

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