EC2 t2 instance prices
General purpose · Intel Xeon Family
The t2 series is a general purpose EC2 line running on Intel Xeon Family. It has 7 sizes, from the t2.nano with 1 vCPU and 0.5 GiB to the t2.2xlarge with 8 vCPUs and 32 GiB, and it is compute-heavy with a median of 2.0 GiB per vCPU.
In US East the Linux on-demand price runs from $0.00580/hour to $0.3712/hour, or $4.23 to $271 a month. The median price per vCPU-hour across the series is $0.0232.
Price per vCPU-hour is not flat across the series: the t2.nano is the cheapest per vCPU at $0.00580 and the t2.large the dearest at $0.0464, a 700% gap, so the size you choose changes your unit cost as well as your total. All sizes are sold in the same 12 of the 12 regions we track. Each size below links to a page with prices in every tracked region, reserved-instance savings, Windows pricing and cheaper alternatives of the same shape.