vt1.3xlarge

Analysis

The vt1.3xlarge is a media accelerator instances instance in the vt1 series with 12 vCPUs and 24 GiB of memory on Intel Xeon Platinum 8259CL (up to 2.5 GHz), which makes it compute-heavy at 2 GiB of memory per vCPU.

Running it in N. Virginia instead of Tokyo saves $123 a month per instance: $0.6500/hour against $0.8182/hour, a 26% spread. It is not offered in Ohio, Canada Central, São Paulo, London, Frankfurt, Mumbai, Singapore and Sydney, so plan around that if you need a presence there.

On demand it costs $0.6500/hour in US East (N. Virginia), $475 a month if left running, which puts it mid-table for media accelerator instances types at the 50th percentile per vCPU ($0.0542 per vCPU-hour) and the 50th percentile per GiB ($0.0271 per GiB-hour).

Reserving it for a year with no upfront payment cuts the Linux rate to $0.4095/hour, which beats on demand once it runs more than 63% of the time; three years brings it to $0.2808/hour, 57% below on demand.

It is the smallest of the 3 vt1 sizes. Stepping up to the vt1.6xlarge gives 24 vCPUs and 48 GiB for $475 more a month.

Storage is EBS only. Network: 3125 Megabit.