t2.small by Amazon Web Services

t2.small is a Burstable performance Gen2 small server offered by Amazon Web Services with 1 vCPUs, 2 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.003 USD per hour.
1 vCPU
2 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
855
(All-cores)
855
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
aws
Name
t2.small
Description
Burstable performance Gen2 small
Family
t2
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-05T08:58:34.290508

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Ohio (US) / us-east-2
0.004233 USD/h 0.023 USD/h
Oregon (US) / us-west-2
0.006067 USD/h 0.023 USD/h
Northern Virgina (US) / us-east-1
0.0092 USD/h 0.023 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / ap-south-1
0.0095 USD/h 0.0248 USD/h
Dublin (IE) / eu-west-1
0.010533 USD/h 0.025 USD/h
Quebec (CA) / ca-central-1
0.00865 USD/h 0.0256 USD/h
London (GB) / eu-west-2
0.008467 USD/h 0.026 USD/h
Paris (FR) / eu-west-3
0.011033 USD/h 0.0264 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / eu-central-1
0.010567 USD/h 0.0268 USD/h
California (US) / us-west-1
0.01215 USD/h 0.0276 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / ap-northeast-2
0.00625 USD/h 0.0288 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / ap-southeast-2
0.010533 USD/h 0.0292 USD/h
Singapore (SG) / ap-southeast-1
0.012167 USD/h 0.0292 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / ap-northeast-1
0.0113 USD/h 0.0304 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / ap-northeast-3
0.0135 USD/h 0.0304 USD/h
Sao Paulo (BR) / sa-east-1
0.0058 USD/h 0.0372 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
E5-2686 v4
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
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
100

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
2 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
2 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
      0.128 Gbps
      Network Speed Max
      1.024 Gbps
      Inbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      Outbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      IPv4
      0

      Server Description

      A burstable, entry-level compute instance with minimal resource requirements, designed for low-intensity development and testing workloads.

      Burstable & BudgetGeneral Purpose

      Amazon Web Services t2.small is a burstable, entry-level instance designed for low-intensity workloads. Running on the Xen hypervisor with an i386 architecture, it features 1 vCPU from an Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 processor clocked at 2.5 GHz, paired with 2.0 GB of memory. The instance lacks local storage, dedicated GPUs, and baseline network bandwidth. Benchmark results consistently rank the t2.small in the bottom 10% for CPU, memory bandwidth, and cryptographic operations, with a stress-ng score of 855.28 and a static web serving throughput of 1.09 GB/sec. This instance is qualitatively cost-effective for development, testing, and microservices with low CPU utilization requirements.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.081Score
      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) 88,462 ops/sec 1,916,704 ops/sec 0.046 50.00% 50.00% -79.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 393,905 ops/sec 11,642,227 ops/sec 0.033 20.00% 20.00% -49.00%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 740 2,417 0.31 10.00% 10.00% -11.00%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 28,334 MB/sec 108,361 MB/sec 0.25 10.00% 10.00% -13.00%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 1,717 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.71 10.00% 10.00% -3.40%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 850

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 852

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 1442
      Compression
      		 16642
      Encryption
      		 482
      Extended Instructions
      		 900
      Floating Point Maths
      		 2872
      Integer Maths
      		 3937
      Physics
      		 214
      Prime Numbers
      		 12
      Single Threaded
      		 1717
      String Sorting
      		 2328

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 745
      Database Operations
      		 705
      Memory Latency
      		 84
      Memory Read Cached
      		 18322
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 7855
      Memory Write
      		 7455

      LLM Inference Speed for Prompt Processing

      LLM Inference Speed for Text Generation

      Static Web Server

      Redis

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