t3.medium · atlas

t Burstable

3 Generation 3

medium 2 vCPU · 4 GiB

$39.57/mo

On-demand 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%

What will it cost me?

Enter how you plan to run it.

Instances Hours a day Days a month

× 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.

$4.96 nano $9.93 micro $20 small $40 medium $79 large $158 xl $317 2xl

Price in every region

Cheapest in US East (N. Virginia). Moving from Cape Town would save $110 a year per instance.

US East (N. Virginia) us-east-1$30.37 −23%US East (Ohio) us-east-2$30.37 −23%US West (Oregon) us-west-2$30.37 −23%Europe (Stockholm) eu-north-1$31.54 −20%Mexico (Central) mx-central-1$31.90 −19%Asia Pacific (Mumbai) ap-south-1$32.70 −17%Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) ap-south-2$32.70 −17%Europe (Spain) eu-south-2$33.29 −16%Europe (Ireland) eu-west-1$33.29 −16%Canada (Central) ca-central-1$33.87 −14%Canada West (Calgary) ca-west-1$33.87 −14%Europe (London) eu-west-2$34.46 −13%Europe (Paris) eu-west-3$34.46 −13%Asia Pacific (Malaysia) ap-southeast-5$34.67 −12%Asia Pacific (Thailand) ap-southeast-7$34.67 −12%Europe (Milan) eu-south-1$34.97 −12%Israel (Tel Aviv) il-central-1$34.97 −12%Europe (Frankfurt) eu-central-1$35.04 −11%

AWS GovCloud (US-East) us-gov-east-1$35.62 −10%AWS GovCloud (US-West) us-gov-west-1$35.62 −10%Asia Pacific (Taipei) ap-east-2$35.77 −10%US West (N. California) us-west-1$36.21 −8%Middle East (UAE) me-central-1$36.65 −7%Middle East (Bahrain) me-south-1$36.65 −7%Asia Pacific (Seoul) ap-northeast-2$37.96 −4%Asia Pacific (Singapore) ap-southeast-1$38.54 −3%Asia Pacific (Sydney) ap-southeast-2$38.54 −3%Asia Pacific (Jakarta) ap-southeast-3$38.54 −3%Asia Pacific (Melbourne) ap-southeast-4$38.54 −3%Europe (Zurich) eu-central-2$38.54 −3%Africa (Cape Town) af-south-1$39.57 base Asia Pacific (Tokyo) ap-northeast-1$39.71 0%Asia Pacific (Osaka) ap-northeast-3$39.71 0%Asia Pacific (New Zealand) ap-southeast-6$40.44 +2%Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) ap-east-1$42.63 +8%South America (São Paulo) sa-east-1$49.06 +24%

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	$31.68	−20%
t3.medium	Xeon Skylake	Newest	EBS only	$39.57	—
c6g.large	Graviton2	Gen 6	EBS only	$66.58	+68%
c7g.large	Graviton3	Gen 7	EBS only	$70.74	+79%
c5a.large	EPYC Rome	Gen 5	EBS only	$75.19	+90%
c6gd.large	Graviton2	Gen 6	118 GB NVMe	$75.92	+92%
c8g.large	Graviton4	Gen 8	EBS only	$77.82	+97%
c7i-flex.large	Xeon Sapphire Rapids	Gen 7	EBS only	$83.01	+110%
c5.large	Xeon Skylake	Newest	EBS only	$83.22	+110%
c6i.large	Xeon Ice Lake	Gen 6	EBS only	$83.22	+110%
c5ad.large	EPYC Rome	Gen 5	75 GB NVMe	$85.41	+116%
c8i-flex.large	Xeon Granite Rapids	Newest	EBS only	$87.16	+120%
c7i.large	Xeon Sapphire Rapids	Gen 7	EBS only	$87.38	+121%
c8i.large	Xeon Granite Rapids	Newest	EBS only	$91.75	+132%
c5d.large	Xeon Skylake	Gen 5	50 GB NVMe	$94.90	+140%
c6in.large	Xeon Ice Lake	Gen 6	EBS only	$111	+181%
c8gn.large	Graviton4	Newest	EBS only	$116	+194%
c8gb.large	Graviton4	Gen 8	EBS only	$116	+194%

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