EC2 t3 instance prices

General purpose · Intel Skylake E5 2686 v5

The t3 series is a general purpose EC2 line running on Intel Skylake E5 2686 v5. It has 7 sizes, from the t3.nano with 2 vCPUs and 0.5 GiB to the t3.2xlarge 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 $0.00520/hour to $0.3328/hour, or $3.80 to $243 a month. The median price per vCPU-hour across the series is $0.0208.

Price per vCPU-hour is not flat across the series: the t3.nano is the cheapest per vCPU at $0.00260 and the t3.large the dearest at $0.0416, a 1500% 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.

SizevCPUMemory$/hour$/monthRegions
t3.nano20.5 GiB$0.00520$3.8012
t3.micro21 GiB$0.0104$7.5912
t3.small22 GiB$0.0208$15.1812
t3.medium24 GiB$0.0416$30.3712
t3.large28 GiB$0.0832$60.7412
t3.xlarge416 GiB$0.1664$12112
t3.2xlarge832 GiB$0.3328$24312