AWS Amazon EC2

t2.medium

Part of the T2 General Purpose family — Balanced compute, memory, and networking for a wide range of workloads.

Name:tBurstable General Purpose22nd GenerationmediumMedium

On-demand, Linux

$0.0464/ hr

~$33.87/mo · lowest in US East (N. Virginia), us-east-1

Savings Plan, Linux

$0.0231/ hr

From, with a 3-year Compute Savings Plan, No Upfront: −50% vs on-demand rate (us-east-1)

Per unit

$0.0232/ vCPU-hr

$0.0116/GB-hr

Compute

2vCPUs

2 cores • x86_64

Memory

4GB

2.0 GB / vCPU

Network

Low to Moderate

Baseline: 0.256 Gbps

Storage & EBS

EBSOnly

EBS only

Alternatives to t2.medium

Option	Price vs t2.medium	Why look at it
t3.medium Compare →	-10%-$0.0048/hr Linux on-demand, us-east-1	Newer generation, same vCPU and RAM
t4g.medium Compare →	-28%-$0.0128/hr Linux on-demand, us-east-1	Graviton (arm64), newer generation, same vCPU and RAM

On Google Cloud

The nearest Google Cloud machines to t2.medium by vCPU and memory, at On-demand Linux rates in Northern Virginia (us-east-1 ↔ us-east4).

Machine	Size	On-demand Linux	vs t2.medium
t2.mediumThis page · AWS, us-east-1	2 vCPU · 4 GiB	$0.0464/hr	—
e2-mediumsame 2 vCPU and 4 GiB; Intel vs Intel or AMD	2 vCPU · 4 GiB	$0.037735/hr	19% less

Matched on vCPU and memory, then CPU vendor, then rate; a larger size is offered only when nothing is the same size. On-demand Linux only: Spot and commitments work differently on the two clouds, so they aren't compared here.

Technical Specifications & Limits

Hardware specs, container thresholds, and system limits

Compute & Processor

ProcessorIntel Xeon Family

Architecturex86_64 (x86_64)

vCPUs / Threads2 vCPUs

Physical Cores2

Clock SpeedUp to 3.3 GHz

Intel AVX / AVX2AVX Supported

Intel Turbo BoostYes

Bare MetalNo (Virtualized)

Performance & Benchmarks

CoreMark Score41,051

CoreMark / vCPU20,525.5 / core

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CoreMark per Dollar884,720 score / $

Cost per vCPU-hr$0.0232

Cost per GB-hr$0.0116

Containers & Kubernetes

EKS Max Pods17 pods

Max ENIs3

IPv4/v6 per ENI6

Total Addressable IPs18 total IPs

CNI Prefix DelegationStandard CNI

Networking & Bandwidth

Network PerformanceLow to Moderate

Baseline Bandwidth0.256 Gbps

Burst / Peak Bandwidth1.024 Gbps

Enhanced NetworkingNo

EFA SupportNo

IPv6 SupportNative Dual-Stack Supported

Storage & EBS Optimization

Storage ConfigurationEBS only

Local NVMe DiskNone (EBS only)

EBS Baseline Throughput—

EBS Max Throughput—

EBS Baseline IOPS—

EBS Max / Burst IOPS—

Dedicated EBS Throughput1 Mbps

Platform & Architecture Details

Hypervisor / SystemXen Hypervisor

Nitro EnclavesNot Supported

Normalization Factor2

Generation StatusCurrent Generation (Recommended)

Rates by region

Live on-demand rates across all global AWS cloud regions

Lowest Price Region

$0.0464/ hr

US East (N. Virginia) (us-east-1)

Highest Price Region

$0.0744/ hr

South America (Sao Paulo) (sa-east-1)

Global Fleet Average

$0.0546/ hr

Across all active regions

Regional Coverage

17regions

Available worldwide

Linux — Available in all 17 regions
Region	On-Demand Price	% vs On-Demand Rate
ap-south-1 Asia Pacific (Mumbai)	$0.0496
ap-northeast-3 Asia Pacific (Osaka)	$0.0608
ap-northeast-2 Asia Pacific (Seoul)	$0.0576
ap-southeast-1 Asia Pacific (Singapore)	$0.0584
ap-southeast-2 Asia Pacific (Sydney)	$0.0584
ap-northeast-1 Asia Pacific (Tokyo)	$0.0608
us-gov-west-1 AWS GovCloud (US-West)	$0.0544
ca-central-1 Canada (Central)	$0.0512
eu-central-1 EU (Frankfurt)	$0.0536
eu-west-1 EU (Ireland)	$0.0500
eu-west-2 EU (London)	$0.0520
eu-west-3 EU (Paris)	$0.0528
sa-east-1 South America (Sao Paulo) Highest	$0.0744
us-east-1 US East (N. Virginia) Lowest	$0.0464
us-east-2 US East (Ohio) Lowest	$0.0464
us-west-1 US West (N. California)	$0.0552
us-west-2 US West (Oregon) Lowest	$0.0464

Windows — Available in all 17 regions
Region	On-Demand Price	% vs On-Demand Rate
ap-south-1 Asia Pacific (Mumbai)	$0.0676
ap-northeast-3 Asia Pacific (Osaka)	$0.0788
ap-northeast-2 Asia Pacific (Seoul)	$0.0756
ap-southeast-1 Asia Pacific (Singapore)	$0.0764
ap-southeast-2 Asia Pacific (Sydney)	$0.0764
ap-northeast-1 Asia Pacific (Tokyo)	$0.0788
us-gov-west-1 AWS GovCloud (US-West)	$0.0724
ca-central-1 Canada (Central)	$0.0692
eu-central-1 EU (Frankfurt)	$0.0716
eu-west-1 EU (Ireland)	$0.0680
eu-west-2 EU (London)	$0.0704
eu-west-3 EU (Paris)	$0.0708
sa-east-1 South America (Sao Paulo) Highest	$0.0924
us-east-1 US East (N. Virginia) Lowest	$0.0644
us-east-2 US East (Ohio) Lowest	$0.0644
us-west-1 US West (N. California)	$0.0732
us-west-2 US West (Oregon) Lowest	$0.0644

Savings Plans: what to know

A Savings Plan commits you to a dollar amount per hour of spend for one or three years, not to an instance: usage up to that amount is billed at the plan's rates and the rest at on-demand, and unused commitment is still billed.
A Compute Savings Plan follows your usage across instance families, sizes, regions and operating systems; an EC2 Instance Savings Plan is locked to one family in one region in exchange for a lower rate (what that flexibility costs).
In US East (N. Virginia) (us-east-1), the 3-year Compute Savings Plan rate (No Upfront) for t2.medium on Linux is 50% of the on-demand rate, so the instance has to run at least 50% of the hours for the commitment to cost less than on-demand.
On Windows a plan discounts only the compute part of the rate: the Windows license part costs the same as on demand, so the percentage off is smaller than on Linux.
Rates are AWS's effective hourly rate for each payment option; All Upfront pays the whole term's commitment at purchase, which is why its hourly rate is lower; Partial Upfront (at least half up front) isn't shown on this page. The Savings Plans calculator has all three and sizes a commitment for this instance or a mix of them. How AWS applies a plan each hour: how Compute Savings Plans decide what they cover. Sizing one for elastic workloads: managing Compute Savings Plans.