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t3.micro by Amazon Web Services

t3.micro is a Burstable performance Gen3 micro server offered by Amazon Web Services with 2 vCPUs, 1 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0013 USD per hour.
2 vCPU
1 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
1350
(All-cores)
1019
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
aws
Name
t3.micro
Description
Burstable performance Gen3 micro
Family
t3
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-07-21T01:33:20.902936

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Ohio (US) / us-east-2
0.002933 USD/h 0.0104 USD/h
Oregon (US) / us-west-2
0.003575 USD/h 0.0104 USD/h
Northern Virgina (US) / us-east-1
0.00416 USD/h 0.0104 USD/h
Stockholm (SE) / eu-north-1
0.0035 USD/h 0.0108 USD/h
(MX) / mx-central-1
0.004167 USD/h 0.0109 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / ap-south-1
0.003333 USD/h 0.0112 USD/h
Hyderabad (IN) / ap-south-2
0.004 USD/h 0.0112 USD/h
Aragón (ES) / eu-south-2
0.004567 USD/h 0.0114 USD/h
Dublin (IE) / eu-west-1
0.005367 USD/h 0.0114 USD/h
Calgary (CA) / ca-west-1
0.0036 USD/h 0.0116 USD/h
Quebec (CA) / ca-central-1
0.004033 USD/h 0.0116 USD/h
Paris (FR) / eu-west-3
0.0042 USD/h 0.0118 USD/h
London (GB) / eu-west-2
0.004467 USD/h 0.0118 USD/h
(MY) / ap-southeast-5
0.006133 USD/h 0.0119 USD/h
(TH) / ap-southeast-7
0.0062 USD/h 0.0119 USD/h
Milan (IT) / eu-south-1
0.003033 USD/h 0.012 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / il-central-1
0.003533 USD/h 0.012 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / eu-central-1
0.0053 USD/h 0.012 USD/h
Taipei (TW) / ap-east-2
0.0039 USD/h 0.0122 USD/h
California (US) / us-west-1
0.0046 USD/h 0.0124 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / ap-northeast-2
0.003675 USD/h 0.013 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / ap-southeast-3
0.0023 USD/h 0.0132 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / ap-southeast-4
0.002867 USD/h 0.0132 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / ap-southeast-2
0.004967 USD/h 0.0132 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / eu-central-2
0.0054 USD/h 0.0132 USD/h
Singapore (SG) / ap-southeast-1
0.006267 USD/h 0.0132 USD/h
Cape Town (ZA) / af-south-1
0.0032 USD/h 0.0136 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / ap-northeast-3
0.0054 USD/h 0.0136 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / ap-northeast-1
0.005267 USD/h 0.0136 USD/h
(NZ) / ap-southeast-6
0.005067 USD/h 0.0139 USD/h
Hong Kong (HK) / ap-east-1
0.003833 USD/h 0.0146 USD/h
Sao Paulo (BR) / sa-east-1
0.0039 USD/h 0.0168 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
2
Hypervisor
nitro
CPU Allocation
Burstable
CPU Cores
1
CPU Speed
2.5 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU Model
8259CL
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
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
1 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
36 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
36 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, ss, ht, syscall, nx, pdpe1gb, rdtscp, lm, constant_tsc, rep_good, nopl, xtopology, nonstop_tsc, 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, 3dnowprefetch, pti, fsgsbase, tsc_adjust, bmi1, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, mpx, avx512f, avx512dq, rdseed, adx, smap, clflushopt, clwb, avx512cd, avx512bw, avx512vl, xsaveopt, xsavec, xgetbv1, xsaves, ida, arat, pku, ospke
Ecpus
1.3
Scalability
130

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
1 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
1 GiB
Memory Generation
DDR4
Memory Speed
2933 Mhz
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
      0.064 Gbps
      Network Speed Max
      5 Gbps
      Network Storage Speed Baseline
      0.087 Gbps
      Network Storage Speed Max
      2.085 Gbps
      Inbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      Outbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      IPv4
      0

      Server Description

      A burstable x86_64 instance with two vCPUs and one gigabyte of memory, optimized for lightweight and non-sustained workloads.

      Burstable & Budget

      Amazon Web Services t3.micro is a burstable x86_64 instance powered by an Intel Xeon 8259CL processor running at 2.5 GHz. Operating on the AWS Nitro hypervisor, it provides 2 vCPUs, 1 physical core, and 1.0 GB of DDR4 memory, with no local storage or GPU. Benchmark results place this instance in the bottom 10% for compute and memory performance, with a stress-ng single-core score of 1018.99 and a Passmark CPU score of 1633.07. However, it achieves 1.39 million operations per second in Redis SET tests and 1.76 GB/sec in static web serving. Due to its burstable CPU allocation and low memory footprint, the t3.micro is a qualitatively cost-effective option for lightweight, non-sustained workloads such as small development environments, microservices, and low-traffic web applications.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.094Score
      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.Partial coverage: missing component benchmark(s): PassMark Memory Mark (composite).
      Component Score Weight Impact Note
      Raw Reference Normalized Target Actual
      Redis RPS (pipeline=1, SET) 127,772 ops/sec 1,896,415 ops/sec 0.0674 50.00% 55.60% -77.70%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 801,552 ops/sec 11,539,523 ops/sec 0.0695 20.00% 22.20% -44.70%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 0 2,411 — 10.00% 0.00% — invalid value: 0.0
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 14,843 MB/sec 107,368 MB/sec 0.138 10.00% 11.10% -19.70%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 1,437 Mops/s 2,363 Mops/s 0.608 10.00% 11.10% -5.37%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		1633
      Compression
      		21045
      Encryption
      		589
      Extended Instructions
      		1315
      Floating Point Maths
      		2524
      Integer Maths
      		4672
      Physics
      		171
      Prime Numbers
      		7
      Single Threaded
      		1437
      String Sorting
      		2646

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		0
      Database Operations
      		0
      Memory Latency
      		0
      Memory Read Cached
      		0
      Memory Read Uncached
      		0
      Memory Write
      		0

      Stress-ng Raw Scores

      Stress-ng Relative Multicore Performance

      Static Web Server

      Redis

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