t2.xlarge by Amazon Web Services

t2.xlarge is a Burstable performance Gen2 xlarge server offered by Amazon Web Services with 4 vCPUs, 16 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0462 USD per hour.
4 vCPU
16 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
3,508
(All-cores)
882
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
aws
Name
t2.xlarge
Description
Burstable performance Gen2 xlarge
Family
t2
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-09-15T07:51:15.936677

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Ohio (US) / us-east-2
0.049567 USD/h 0.1856 USD/h
Northern Virgina (US) / us-east-1
0.087267 USD/h 0.1856 USD/h
Oregon (US) / us-west-2
0.0922 USD/h 0.1856 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / ap-south-1
0.0538 USD/h 0.1984 USD/h
Dublin (IE) / eu-west-1
0.0878 USD/h 0.2016 USD/h
Quebec (CA) / ca-central-1
0.07395 USD/h 0.2048 USD/h
London (GB) / eu-west-2
0.070367 USD/h 0.2112 USD/h
Paris (FR) / eu-west-3
0.080267 USD/h 0.2112 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / eu-central-1
0.091533 USD/h 0.2144 USD/h
California (US) / us-west-1
0.079 USD/h 0.2208 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / ap-northeast-2
0.0556 USD/h 0.2304 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / ap-southeast-2
0.076533 USD/h 0.2336 USD/h
Singapore (SG) / ap-southeast-1
0.084633 USD/h 0.2336 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / ap-northeast-3
0.0699 USD/h 0.2432 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / ap-northeast-1
0.0762 USD/h 0.2432 USD/h
Sao Paulo (BR) / sa-east-1
0.0609 USD/h 0.2976 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
4
Hypervisor
xen
CPU Allocation
Burstable
CPU Cores
4
CPU Speed
2.3 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU Model
E5-2686 v4
CPU L1D Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
128 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
128 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
256 KiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
1 MiB
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, pdpe1gb, 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
4
Scalability
100

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
16 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
16 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
      0.75 Gbps
      Network Speed Max
      1.024 Gbps
      Inbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      Outbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      IPv4
      0

      Server Description

      A burstable general-purpose instance offering balanced memory and variable CPU performance for development and light, non-sustained workloads.

      Burstable & BudgetGeneral Purpose

      Amazon Web Services t2.xlarge is a burstable general-purpose instance featuring 4 vCPUs, 4 physical cores, and 16.0 GB of RAM on an x86_64 Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 processor running at 2.3 GHz. Operating under the Xen hypervisor, it provides a baseline network bandwidth of 1 Gbps and lacks local storage or GPU accelerators. Benchmark data positions this instance primarily in the lower performance tiers, with stress-ng single-core and multi-core scores in the bottom 10% and 25% respectively, and a Redis SET throughput of 2.02 million operations per second. However, it maintains average performance for small-model LLM text generation. Due to its burstable CPU allocation, the t2.xlarge is qualitatively cost-efficient for workloads with fluctuating CPU demands, making it suitable for development environments, light database tasks, and low-traffic web serving.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.241Score
      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) 375,834 ops/sec 1,917,397 ops/sec 0.196 50.00% 50.00% -55.70%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 1,592,896 ops/sec 11,681,410 ops/sec 0.136 20.00% 20.00% -32.90%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,372 2,418 0.567 10.00% 10.00% -5.52%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 33,269 MB/sec 108,140 MB/sec 0.308 10.00% 10.00% -11.10%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 1,655 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.7 10.00% 10.00% -3.50%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 860

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 2,754

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 4708
      Compression
      		 66799
      Encryption
      		 1213
      Extended Instructions
      		 4066
      Floating Point Maths
      		 9677
      Integer Maths
      		 12780
      Physics
      		 716
      Prime Numbers
      		 45
      Single Threaded
      		 1655
      String Sorting
      		 9108

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 1372
      Database Operations
      		 1979
      Memory Latency
      		 93
      Memory Read Cached
      		 18926
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 6466
      Memory Write
      		 5202

      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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