t8i.medium
General purpose · t8i series · Intel Xeon Scalable (Granite Rapids)
- vCPU
- 2
- Memory
- 4 GiB
- Linux / hour
- $0.0499
- Per month
- $36.44
- Per vCPU-hour
- $0.0250
- Per GiB-hour
- $0.0125
Analysis
The t8i.medium is a general purpose instance in the t8i series with 2 vCPUs and 4 GiB of memory on Intel Xeon Scalable (Granite Rapids) (up to 3.9 GHz), which makes it compute-heavy at 2 GiB of memory per vCPU.
At $0.0499/hour on demand in US East (N. Virginia), about $36.44 a month, the t8i.medium is one of the cheaper ways to buy general purpose capacity: only 6% of the 354 current general purpose types cost less per vCPU-hour than its $0.0250.
Running it in N. Virginia instead of São Paulo saves $22.43 a month per instance: $0.0499/hour against $0.0806/hour, a 62% spread.
It is the largest of the 4 t8i sizes. Dropping to the t8i.small saves $18.22 a month. Unit price is not flat across the series ($0.00312 to $0.0250 per vCPU-hour), so the size changes the rate you pay.
Looking beyond its own line, 4 of 36 current types with 2 vCPUs and similar memory are cheaper. The cheapest of those is the t4g.medium on AWS Graviton2 at $0.0336/hour. It is burstable, so it only suits workloads that do not run the CPU flat out.
Windows Server roughly adds 44% to the bill at $0.0720/hour, because the licence is charged per vCPU.
Price by region (USD per hour)
| Region | Linux | Windows | 1-yr RI | 3-yr RI | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N. Virginia us-east-1 | $0.0499 | $0.0720 | – | – | |
| Ohio us-east-2 | $0.0499 | $0.0720 | – | – | |
| Oregon us-west-2 | $0.0499 | $0.0720 | – | – | |
| Canada Central ca-central-1 | $0.0557 | $0.0778 | – | – | |
| São Paulo sa-east-1 | $0.0806 | $0.1027 | – | – | |
| Ireland eu-west-1 | $0.0547 | $0.0768 | – | – | |
| London eu-west-2 | $0.0566 | $0.0787 | – | – | |
| Frankfurt eu-central-1 | $0.0576 | $0.0797 | – | – | |
| Mumbai ap-south-1 | $0.0538 | $0.0758 | – | – | |
| Singapore ap-southeast-1 | $0.0634 | $0.0854 | – | – | |
| Sydney ap-southeast-2 | $0.0634 | $0.0854 | – | – | |
| Tokyo ap-northeast-1 | $0.0653 | $0.0874 | – | – |
Shared tenancy, no pre-installed software. Reserved rates are standard, no upfront, per hour. Prices as of 2026-11-04.
Same shape, other types
| Type | vCPU | Memory | $/hour | vs t8i.medium |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| t4g.medium AWS Graviton2 Processor | 2 | 4 GiB | $0.0336 | -33% |
| t3a.medium AMD EPYC 7571 | 2 | 4 GiB | $0.0376 | -25% |
| t3.medium Intel Skylake E5 2686 v5 | 2 | 4 GiB | $0.0416 | -17% |
| t2.medium Intel Xeon Family | 2 | 4 GiB | $0.0464 | -7% |
| c6g.large AWS Graviton2 Processor | 2 | 4 GiB | $0.0680 | +36% |
| c7g.large AWS Graviton3 Processor | 2 | 4 GiB | $0.0725 | +45% |