AWS Amazon EC2

t3a.medium

Part of the T3A General Purpose family — Balanced compute, memory, and networking for a wide range of workloads.

Name:tBurstable General Purpose33rd GenerationaAMD EPYCmediumMedium

On-demand, Linux

$0.0246/ hr

~$17.96/mo · lowest in Asia Pacific (Mumbai), ap-south-1

Savings Plan, Linux

$0.0120/ hr

From, with a 3-year Compute Savings Plan, No Upfront: −51% vs on-demand rate (ap-south-1)

Per unit

$0.0123/ vCPU-hr

$0.0062/GB-hr

Compute

2vCPUs

1 cores • x86_64

Memory

4GB

2.0 GB / vCPU

Network

Up to 5 Gbps

Baseline: 0.256 Gbps

Storage & EBS

260.625MB/s

Max: 11,800 IOPS

Alternatives to t3a.medium

Option	Price vs t3a.medium	Why look at it
t3.medium Compare →	+11%+$0.004/hr Linux on-demand, us-east-1	Intel (x86_64), same vCPU and RAM
t4g.medium Compare →	-11%-$0.004/hr Linux on-demand, us-east-1	Graviton (arm64), newer generation, same vCPU and RAM

On Google Cloud

The nearest Google Cloud machines to t3a.medium by vCPU and memory, at On-demand Linux rates in Northern Virginia (us-east-1 ↔ us-east4).

Machine	Size	On-demand Linux	vs t3a.medium
t3a.mediumThis page · AWS, us-east-1	2 vCPU · 4 GiB	$0.0376/hr	—
e2-mediumsame 2 vCPU and 4 GiB; AMD vs Intel or AMD	2 vCPU · 4 GiB	$0.037735/hr	0.4% more

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

ProcessorAMD EPYC 7571

Architecturex86_64 (x86_64)

vCPUs / Threads2 vCPUs

Physical Cores1

Clock Speed2.5 GHz

Intel AVX / AVX2No

Intel Turbo BoostNo

Bare MetalNo (Virtualized)

Performance & Benchmarks

CoreMark Score25,850

CoreMark / vCPU12,924.9 / core

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CoreMark per Dollar1,050,813 score / $

Cost per vCPU-hr$0.0123

Cost per GB-hr$0.0062

Containers & Kubernetes

EKS Max Pods17 pods

Max ENIs3

IPv4/v6 per ENI6

Total Addressable IPs18 total IPs

CNI Prefix DelegationSupported (High Density)

Networking & Bandwidth

Network PerformanceUp to 5 Gbps

Baseline Bandwidth0.256 Gbps

Burst / Peak Bandwidth5 Gbps

Enhanced NetworkingYes

EFA SupportNo

IPv6 SupportNative Dual-Stack Supported

Storage & EBS Optimization

Storage ConfigurationEBS only

Local NVMe DiskNone (EBS only)

EBS Baseline Throughput43.75 MB/s

EBS Max Throughput260.625 MB/s

EBS Baseline IOPS2,000

EBS Max / Burst IOPS11,800

Dedicated EBS ThroughputUp to 2085 Mbps

Platform & Architecture Details

Hypervisor / SystemAWS Nitro System (PCIe Offload)

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

$0.0246/ hr

Asia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)

Highest Price Region

$0.0605/ hr

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

Global Fleet Average

$0.0430/ hr

Across all active regions

Regional Coverage

19regions

Available worldwide

Linux — Available in all 19 regions
Region	On-Demand Price	% vs On-Demand Rate
ap-south-1 Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Lowest	$0.0246
ap-northeast-2 Asia Pacific (Seoul)	$0.0468
ap-southeast-1 Asia Pacific (Singapore)	$0.0472
ap-southeast-2 Asia Pacific (Sydney)	$0.0475
ap-northeast-1 Asia Pacific (Tokyo)	$0.0490
us-gov-east-1 AWS GovCloud (US-East)	$0.0439
us-gov-west-1 AWS GovCloud (US-West)	$0.0439
ca-central-1 Canada (Central)	$0.0418
eu-central-1 EU (Frankfurt)	$0.0432
eu-west-1 EU (Ireland)	$0.0408
eu-west-2 EU (London)	$0.0425
eu-south-1 EU (Milan)	$0.0431
eu-west-3 EU (Paris)	$0.0425
il-central-1 Israel (Tel Aviv)	$0.0429
sa-east-1 South America (Sao Paulo) Highest	$0.0605
us-east-1 US East (N. Virginia)	$0.0376
us-east-2 US East (Ohio)	$0.0376
us-west-1 US West (N. California)	$0.0446
us-west-2 US West (Oregon)	$0.0376

Windows — Available in all 19 regions
Region	On-Demand Price	% vs On-Demand Rate
ap-south-1 Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Lowest	$0.0430
ap-northeast-2 Asia Pacific (Seoul)	$0.0652
ap-southeast-1 Asia Pacific (Singapore)	$0.0656
ap-southeast-2 Asia Pacific (Sydney)	$0.0659
ap-northeast-1 Asia Pacific (Tokyo)	$0.0674
us-gov-east-1 AWS GovCloud (US-East)	$0.0623
us-gov-west-1 AWS GovCloud (US-West)	$0.0623
ca-central-1 Canada (Central)	$0.0602
eu-central-1 EU (Frankfurt)	$0.0616
eu-west-1 EU (Ireland)	$0.0592
eu-west-2 EU (London)	$0.0609
eu-south-1 EU (Milan)	$0.0615
eu-west-3 EU (Paris)	$0.0609
il-central-1 Israel (Tel Aviv)	$0.0613
sa-east-1 South America (Sao Paulo) Highest	$0.0789
us-east-1 US East (N. Virginia)	$0.0560
us-east-2 US East (Ohio)	$0.0560
us-west-1 US West (N. California)	$0.0630
us-west-2 US West (Oregon)	$0.0560

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 Asia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1), the 3-year Compute Savings Plan rate (No Upfront) for t3a.medium on Linux is 49% of the on-demand rate, so the instance has to run at least 49% 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.