t2.micro by Amazon Web Services

t2.micro is a Burstable performance Gen2 micro server offered by Amazon Web Services with 1 vCPUs, 1 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0016 USD per hour.
1 vCPU
1 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
157
(All-cores)
157
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
aws
Name
t2.micro
Description
Burstable performance Gen2 micro
Family
t2
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-14T21:28:13.293379

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Ohio (US) / us-east-2
0.002033 USD/h 0.0116 USD/h
Oregon (US) / us-west-2
0.0032 USD/h 0.0116 USD/h
Northern Virgina (US) / us-east-1
0.0048 USD/h 0.0116 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / ap-south-1
0.0078 USD/h 0.0124 USD/h
Dublin (IE) / eu-west-1
0.0036 USD/h 0.0126 USD/h
Quebec (CA) / ca-central-1
0.00415 USD/h 0.0128 USD/h
London (GB) / eu-west-2
0.004667 USD/h 0.0132 USD/h
Paris (FR) / eu-west-3
0.0048 USD/h 0.0132 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / eu-central-1
0.004633 USD/h 0.0134 USD/h
California (US) / us-west-1
0.0033 USD/h 0.0138 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / ap-northeast-2
0.00215 USD/h 0.0144 USD/h
Singapore (SG) / ap-southeast-1
0.004767 USD/h 0.0146 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / ap-southeast-2
0.005933 USD/h 0.0146 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / ap-northeast-1
0.005467 USD/h 0.0152 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / ap-northeast-3
0.0061 USD/h 0.0152 USD/h
Sao Paulo (BR) / sa-east-1
0.0021 USD/h 0.0186 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
1
Hypervisor
xen
CPU Allocation
Burstable
CPU Cores
1
CPU Speed
2.5 GHz
CPU Architecture
i386
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU Model
E5-2676 v3
CPU L1D Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
32 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
256 KiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
256 KiB
CPU L3 Cache
30 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
30 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
100

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
1 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
1 GiB
ACCELERATORS
Accelerator Count
0
Accelerator Memory Min
0 MiB
Accelerator Memory Total
0 MiB
Accelerators
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    0 GB
    Storages
      NETWORK
      Network Speed Baseline
      0.064 Gbps
      Network Speed Max
      1.024 Gbps
      Inbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      Outbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      IPv4
      0

      Server Description

      A budget-friendly, burstable single-core instance with one gigabyte of memory, designed for low-intensity development and basic testing workloads.

      Burstable & BudgetGeneral Purpose

      Amazon Web Services t2.micro is a burstable, entry-level instance within the t2 family, running on the Xen hypervisor. It features an Intel Xeon E5-2676 v3 processor with an i386 architecture, offering 1 vCPU, 1 physical core, and 1.0 GB of system memory. The instance has no local storage or GPU resources, and its baseline network bandwidth is 0 Gbps. Benchmark data indicates modest performance, with stress-ng CPU scores of 157.0 and a Passmark CPU score of 1438.31, placing it in the bottom 10% of tested servers. Memory bandwidth ranges from 78.35 GB/sec for small cached blocks to 10.85 GB/sec for large uncached reads. Given its burstable CPU allocation and low resource density, the t2.micro is a highly cost-efficient option for low-traffic workloads, such as static web serving, basic software testing, and lightweight development environments.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.084Score
      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) 93,413 ops/sec 1,917,050 ops/sec 0.049 50.00% 50.00% -78.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 403,473 ops/sec 11,661,818 ops/sec 0.033 20.00% 20.00% -49.00%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 760 2,417 0.32 10.00% 10.00% -11.00%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 29,461 MB/sec 108,361 MB/sec 0.26 10.00% 10.00% -13.00%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 1,689 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.71 10.00% 10.00% -3.40%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 1438
      Compression
      		 16547
      Encryption
      		 485
      Extended Instructions
      		 909
      Floating Point Maths
      		 2863
      Integer Maths
      		 3944
      Physics
      		 202
      Prime Numbers
      		 12
      Single Threaded
      		 1689
      String Sorting
      		 2259

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 756
      Database Operations
      		 708
      Memory Latency
      		 82
      Memory Read Cached
      		 18119
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 8004
      Memory Write
      		 7824

      Static Web Server

      Redis

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