t3.small by Amazon Web Services

t3.small is a Burstable performance Gen3 small server offered by Amazon Web Services with 2 vCPUs, 2 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0037 USD per hour.
2 vCPU
2 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
1,364
(All-cores)
936
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
aws
Name
t3.small
Description
Burstable performance Gen3 small
Family
t3
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
6
Status
active
Observed At
2026-08-25T13:13:57.684991

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Ohio (US) / us-east-2
0.0049 USD/h 0.0208 USD/h
Northern Virgina (US) / us-east-1
0.00786 USD/h 0.0208 USD/h
Oregon (US) / us-west-2
0.00735 USD/h 0.0208 USD/h
Stockholm (SE) / eu-north-1
0.004767 USD/h 0.0216 USD/h
(MX) / mx-central-1
0.008033 USD/h 0.0218 USD/h
Hyderabad (IN) / ap-south-2
0.0053 USD/h 0.0224 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / ap-south-1
0.007267 USD/h 0.0224 USD/h
Aragón (ES) / eu-south-2
0.0062 USD/h 0.0228 USD/h
Dublin (IE) / eu-west-1
0.010567 USD/h 0.0228 USD/h
Calgary (CA) / ca-west-1
0.006567 USD/h 0.0232 USD/h
Quebec (CA) / ca-central-1
0.0088 USD/h 0.0232 USD/h
London (GB) / eu-west-2
0.00805 USD/h 0.0236 USD/h
Paris (FR) / eu-west-3
0.0099 USD/h 0.0236 USD/h
(TH) / ap-southeast-7
0.0099 USD/h 0.0238 USD/h
(MY) / ap-southeast-5
0.010633 USD/h 0.0238 USD/h
Milan (IT) / eu-south-1
0.006267 USD/h 0.024 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / il-central-1
0.007667 USD/h 0.024 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / eu-central-1
0.0106 USD/h 0.024 USD/h
Taipei (TW) / ap-east-2
0.008667 USD/h 0.0245 USD/h
California (US) / us-west-1
0.00865 USD/h 0.0248 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / ap-northeast-2
0.006 USD/h 0.026 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / ap-southeast-3
0.005033 USD/h 0.0264 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / ap-southeast-4
0.004833 USD/h 0.0264 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / eu-central-2
0.0093 USD/h 0.0264 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / ap-southeast-2
0.010367 USD/h 0.0264 USD/h
Singapore (SG) / ap-southeast-1
0.0111 USD/h 0.0264 USD/h
Cape Town (ZA) / af-south-1
0.008067 USD/h 0.0271 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / ap-northeast-3
0.009467 USD/h 0.0272 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / ap-northeast-1
0.010667 USD/h 0.0272 USD/h
(NZ) / ap-southeast-6
0.009333 USD/h 0.0277 USD/h
Hong Kong (HK) / ap-east-1
0.006733 USD/h 0.0292 USD/h
Sao Paulo (BR) / sa-east-1
0.0061 USD/h 0.0336 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
33 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
33 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
1.5
Scalability
150

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
2 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
2 GiB
Memory Generation
DDR4
Memory Speed
2666 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
      0.128 Gbps
      Network Speed Max
      5 Gbps
      Network Storage Speed Baseline
      0.174 Gbps
      Network Storage Speed Max
      2.085 Gbps
      Inbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      Outbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      IPv4
      0

      CPU and System Topology

      Server Description

      A cost-efficient, burstable x86_64 instance with dual vCPUs and DDR4 memory designed for lightweight, low-baseline workloads.

      Burstable & BudgetGeneral Purpose

      Amazon Web Services t3.small is an entry-level, burstable performance instance utilizing the AWS Nitro hypervisor. It features an x86_64 Intel Xeon 8259CL processor clocked at 2.5 GHz, delivering 2 vCPUs from a single physical core with hyper-threading. The instance is equipped with 2.0 GB of DDR4 memory at 3 GHz, but lacks bundled local storage or dedicated GPU hardware. Performance benchmarks, including stress-ng and Passmark CPU tests, place this instance in the bottom 10% of results, reflecting its low-resource profile. The t3.small is a cost-efficient option for workloads with low baseline CPU requirements that benefit from burstable capacity. It is best suited for lightweight applications such as development environments, small microservices, low-traffic web servers, and basic background tasks.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.264Score
      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): Redis RPS (pipeline=1, SET), Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET).
      Component Score Weight Impact
      Raw Reference Normalized Target Actual
      Redis RPS (pipeline=1, SET) — 2,165,686 ops/sec — 50.00% 0.00% —
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) — 13,634,205 ops/sec — 20.00% 0.00% —
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 807.6 2,418 0.334 10.00% 33.30% -30.60%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 10,310 MB/sec 108,173 MB/sec 0.0953 10.00% 33.30% -54.30%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 1,366 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.578 10.00% 33.30% -16.70%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 1894
      Compression
      		 25094
      Encryption
      		 775
      Extended Instructions
      		 1430
      Floating Point Maths
      		 2808
      Integer Maths
      		 4895
      Physics
      		 227
      Prime Numbers
      		 9
      Single Threaded
      		 1366
      String Sorting
      		 2921

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 808
      Database Operations
      		 565
      Memory Latency
      		 76
      Memory Read Cached
      		 16742
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 7651
      Memory Write
      		 7461

      Stress-ng Raw Scores

      Stress-ng Relative Multicore Performance

      LLM Inference Speed for Prompt Processing

      LLM Inference Speed for Text Generation

      Static Web Server

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