T2 General Purpose

Balanced compute, memory, and networking for a wide range of workloads.

Name:tBurstable General Purposet = Burstable General PurposeCost-effective instances providing baseline CPU performance with the ability to burst above baseline when workload surges.22nd Generation2 = 2nd GenerationAWS 2nd generation hardware platform with updated CPU/system architecture.

Alternatives to t2

OptionPrice vs t2Why look at it
t3Compare →
-10%-$0.0096/hr
large, Linux on-demand, us-east-1		Newer generation, same vCPU and RAM
t4gCompare →
-28%-$0.0256/hr
large, Linux on-demand, us-east-1		Graviton (arm64), newer generation, same vCPU and RAM

Common use cases

  • Web servers
  • Application servers
  • Small-to-medium databases
  • Development environments

Head-to-Head Architecture Comparisons

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Generational Evolutiont2 vs t3 vs t4g

AWS Burstable Evolution: T2 vs T3 vs T4g

How AWS burstable compute changed from Xen T2 to Graviton2 T4g

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Instance types (7)

With a 3-year Compute Savings Plan (No Upfront), t2 sizes on Linux in US East (N. Virginia) (us-east-1) cost 50% less than the on-demand rate. Each size's page has the rates in every region. How Savings Plans are applied.

InstancevCPUMemoryArchitectureFrom (Linux, $/hr)
t2.micro11 GBx86_64$0.0116
t2.nano11 GBx86_64$0.0058
t2.small12 GBx86_64$0.0230
t2.large28 GBx86_64$0.0928
t2.medium24 GBx86_64$0.0464
t2.xlarge416 GBx86_64$0.1856
t2.2xlarge832 GBx86_64$0.3712