t2.medium · atlas

t Burstable

2 Generation 2

medium 2 vCPU · 4 GiB

$40.30/mo

On-demand in N. California

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 N. California. Bars are relative to on-demand.

Plan	Monthly	Yearly	Saves
On-demand Pay by the second, no commitment	$40.30	$484
Reserved, 1 yr No upfront, this size and region	$29.27	$351	−27%
Reserved, 3 yr No upfront, this size and region	$20.07	$241	−50%

Plan

Monthly

Yearly

Saves

On-demand

Pay by the second, no commitment

$40.30

$484

Reserved, 1 yr

No upfront, this size and region

$29.27

$351

−27%

Reserved, 3 yr

No upfront, this size and region

$20.07

$241

−50%

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.

$5.04 nano $10 micro $20 small $40 medium $81 large $161 xl $322 2xl

Price in every region

Cheapest in US East (N. Virginia). Moving from N. California would save $77 a year per instance.

US East (N. Virginia) us-east-1$33.87 −16%US East (Ohio) us-east-2$33.87 −16%US West (Oregon) us-west-2$33.87 −16%Asia Pacific (Mumbai) ap-south-1$36.21 −10%Europe (Ireland) eu-west-1$36.50 −9%Canada (Central) ca-central-1$37.38 −7%Europe (London) eu-west-2$37.96 −6%Europe (Paris) eu-west-3$38.54 −4%Europe (Frankfurt) eu-central-1$39.13 −3%

AWS GovCloud (US-West) us-gov-west-1$39.71 −1%US West (N. California) us-west-1$40.30 base Asia Pacific (Seoul) ap-northeast-2$42.05 +4%Asia Pacific (Singapore) ap-southeast-1$42.63 +6%Asia Pacific (Sydney) ap-southeast-2$42.63 +6%Asia Pacific (Tokyo) ap-northeast-1$44.38 +10%Asia Pacific (Osaka) ap-northeast-3$44.38 +10%South America (São Paulo) sa-east-1$54.31 +35%

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 N. California, ranked by price.

Instance	Processor	Generation	Local disk	Price/mo	vs t2.medium
t4g.medium	Graviton2	Gen 4	EBS only	$29.20	−28%
t3a.medium	EPYC Naples	Gen 3	EBS only	$32.56	−19%
t3.medium	Xeon Skylake	Newest	EBS only	$36.21	−10%
t2.medium	Xeon Family	Gen 2	EBS only	$40.30	—
t8i.medium	Xeon Granite Rapids	Gen 8	EBS only	$43.45	+8%
c6g.large	Graviton2	Gen 6	EBS only	$61.90	+54%
c7g.large	Graviton3	Gen 7	EBS only	$65.77	+63%
c5a.large	EPYC Rome	Gen 5	EBS only	$69.35	+72%
c6a.large	EPYC Milan	Gen 6	EBS only	$69.64	+73%
c6gd.large	Graviton2	Gen 6	118 GB NVMe	$70.08	+74%
c8g.large	Graviton4	Gen 8	EBS only	$72.36	+80%
c7i-flex.large	Xeon Sapphire Rapids	Gen 7	EBS only	$77.19	+92%
c5.large	Xeon Skylake	Newest	EBS only	$77.38	+92%
c6i.large	Xeon Ice Lake	Gen 6	EBS only	$77.38	+92%
c6gn.large	Graviton2	Gen 6	EBS only	$78.84	+96%
c8i-flex.large	Xeon Granite Rapids	Newest	EBS only	$81.04	+101%
c7i.large	Xeon Sapphire Rapids	Gen 7	EBS only	$81.25	+102%
c7gd.large	Graviton3	Gen 7	118 GB NVMe	$82.78	+105%
c8i.large	Xeon Granite Rapids	Newest	EBS only	$85.31	+112%
c5d.large	Xeon Skylake	Gen 5	50 GB NVMe	$87.60	+117%
c7a.large	EPYC Genoa	Gen 7	EBS only	$93.43	+132%
c6in.large	Xeon Ice Lake	Gen 6	EBS only	$103	+157%
c8gn.large	Graviton4	Newest	EBS only	$108	+168%
c8gb.large	Graviton4	Gen 8	EBS only	$108	+168%

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