T3 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.33rd Generation3 = 3rd GenerationAWS 3rd generation hardware platform with updated CPU/system architecture.

Common use cases

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

Head-to-Head Architecture Comparisons

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Silicon Trianglet4g vs t3 vs t3a

AWS Burstable Comparison: T4g vs T3 vs T3a

Low-cost baseline compute with CPU credit burst mechanics

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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)

InstancevCPUMemoryArchitectureFrom (Linux, $/hr)
t3.large28 GBx86_64$0.0832
t3.medium24 GBx86_64$0.0416
t3.micro21 GBx86_64$0.0104
t3.nano21 GBx86_64$0.0052
t3.small22 GBx86_64$0.0208
t3.xlarge416 GBx86_64$0.1664
t3.2xlarge832 GBx86_64$0.3328