t2.medium by Amazon Web Services

t2.medium is a Burstable performance Gen2 medium server offered by Amazon Web Services with 2 vCPUs, 4 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0104 USD per hour.
2 vCPU
4 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
682
(All-cores)
682
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
aws
Name
t2.medium
Description
Burstable performance Gen2 medium
Family
t2
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-06T14:38:19.298145

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Ohio (US) / us-east-2
0.0119 USD/h 0.0464 USD/h
Northern Virgina (US) / us-east-1
0.0176 USD/h 0.0464 USD/h
Oregon (US) / us-west-2
0.0206 USD/h 0.0464 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / ap-south-1
0.0178 USD/h 0.0496 USD/h
Dublin (IE) / eu-west-1
0.022667 USD/h 0.05 USD/h
Quebec (CA) / ca-central-1
0.0182 USD/h 0.0512 USD/h
London (GB) / eu-west-2
0.017267 USD/h 0.052 USD/h
Paris (FR) / eu-west-3
0.020333 USD/h 0.0528 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / eu-central-1
0.020933 USD/h 0.0536 USD/h
California (US) / us-west-1
0.0211 USD/h 0.0552 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / ap-northeast-2
0.0117 USD/h 0.0576 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / ap-southeast-2
0.0195 USD/h 0.0584 USD/h
Singapore (SG) / ap-southeast-1
0.0267 USD/h 0.0584 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / ap-northeast-1
0.0209 USD/h 0.0608 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / ap-northeast-3
0.0217 USD/h 0.0608 USD/h
Sao Paulo (BR) / sa-east-1
0.0145 USD/h 0.0744 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
2
Hypervisor
xen
CPU Allocation
Burstable
CPU Cores
2
CPU Speed
2.3 GHz
CPU Architecture
i386
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU Model
E5-2686 v4
CPU L1D Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
64 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
64 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
256 KiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
512 KiB
CPU L3 Cache
45 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
45 MiB
CPU Flags
fpu, vme, de, pse, tsc, msr, pae, mce, cx8, apic, sep, mtrr, pge, mca, cmov, pat, pse36, clflush, mmx, fxsr, sse, sse2, ht, syscall, nx, rdtscp, lm, constant_tsc, rep_good, nopl, xtopology, cpuid, tsc_known_freq, pni, pclmulqdq, ssse3, fma, cx16, pcid, sse4_1, sse4_2, x2apic, movbe, popcnt, tsc_deadline_timer, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, abm, cpuid_fault, pti, fsgsbase, bmi1, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, xsaveopt
Ecpus
1
Scalability
50

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
4 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
4 GiB
GPU
GPU Count
0
GPU Memory Min
0 MiB
GPU Memory Total
0 MiB
GPUs
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    0 GB
    Storages
      NETWORK
      Network Speed Baseline
      0.256 Gbps
      Network Speed Max
      1.024 Gbps
      Inbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      Outbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      IPv4
      0

      Server Description

      A burstable budget friendly virtual server featuring dual core processing and modest memory capacity designed specifically for lightweight variable demand development workloads.

      Burstable & BudgetGeneral Purpose

      Amazon Web Services t2.medium is a burstable performance instance designed for low-intensity workloads. It features an Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 processor with 2 vCPUs, 2 physical cores, and a clock speed of 2.3 GHz on the i386 architecture. The instance is configured with 4.0 GB of RAM, providing 2.0 GB per core, and lacks local storage or GPU accelerators. Operating on the Xen hypervisor, it utilizes a burstable CPU allocation model. Benchmark results indicate limited performance, with stress-ng CPU scores and PassMark memory scores falling in the bottom 10%. Memory bandwidth drops significantly for large uncached blocks to 17.58 GB/sec. This instance is qualitatively cost-effective for workloads with variable CPU demands, making it suitable for basic web serving, lightweight database operations, and development environments.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.16Score
      Precomputed compound score for Cache Intensive workloads. A weighted average (geometric mean) of benchmark scores compared to their medians: score = ∏ (x_i / m_i)^(w_i / Σw). The score of 1.0 represents a synthetic baseline server with the median performance of each component benchmark; 0.5 means roughly half the performance; and 2.0 means twice the performance of that reference profile. Component weights: 50% Redis RPS (pipeline=1, SET), 20% Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET), 10% PassMark Memory Mark (composite), 10% Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3), 10% PassMark single-thread CPU. Rationale for component selection: In-memory key-value store workload, mixing direct Redis performance metrics with memory speed and latency benchmarks, and single-core CPU performance profiles.
      Component Score Weight Impact
      Raw Reference Normalized Target Actual
      Redis RPS (pipeline=1, SET) 222,507 ops/sec 1,916,704 ops/sec 0.12 50.00% 50.00% -65.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 858,761 ops/sec 11,642,227 ops/sec 0.072 20.00% 20.00% -41.00%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 850 2,417 0.35 10.00% 10.00% -10.00%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 26,900 MB/sec 108,361 MB/sec 0.25 10.00% 10.00% -13.00%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 1,811 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.75 10.00% 10.00% -2.80%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 852

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 1,519

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 2834
      Compression
      		 33877
      Encryption
      		 947
      Extended Instructions
      		 1831
      Floating Point Maths
      		 5596
      Integer Maths
      		 7761
      Physics
      		 416
      Prime Numbers
      		 22
      Single Threaded
      		 1811
      String Sorting
      		 4636

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 852
      Database Operations
      		 1367
      Memory Latency
      		 79
      Memory Read Cached
      		 18831
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 8328
      Memory Write
      		 7791

      Stress-ng Raw Scores

      Stress-ng Relative Multicore Performance

      LLM Inference Speed for Prompt Processing

      LLM Inference Speed for Text Generation

      Static Web Server

      Redis

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