t3a.micro by Amazon Web Services

t3a.micro is a Burstable performance [AMD processors] Gen3 micro server offered by Amazon Web Services with 2 vCPUs, 1 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0019 USD per hour.
2 vCPU
1 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
590
(All-cores)
585
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
aws
Name
t3a.micro
Description
Burstable performance [AMD processors] Gen3 micro
Family
t3a
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-09-10T00:38:20.029959

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Mumbai (IN) / ap-south-1
0.002367 USD/h 0.0062 USD/h
Ohio (US) / us-east-2
0.002533 USD/h 0.0094 USD/h
Oregon (US) / us-west-2
0.003975 USD/h 0.0094 USD/h
Northern Virgina (US) / us-east-1
0.00404 USD/h 0.0094 USD/h
Dublin (IE) / eu-west-1
0.004833 USD/h 0.0102 USD/h
Quebec (CA) / ca-central-1
0.0049 USD/h 0.0104 USD/h
London (GB) / eu-west-2
0.0047 USD/h 0.0106 USD/h
Paris (FR) / eu-west-3
0.0082 USD/h 0.0106 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / il-central-1
0.003367 USD/h 0.0107 USD/h
Milan (IT) / eu-south-1
0.002733 USD/h 0.0108 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / eu-central-1
0.004867 USD/h 0.0108 USD/h
California (US) / us-west-1
0.0043 USD/h 0.0112 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / ap-northeast-2
0.0031 USD/h 0.0117 USD/h
Singapore (SG) / ap-southeast-1
0.005533 USD/h 0.0118 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / ap-southeast-2
0.004467 USD/h 0.0119 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / ap-northeast-1
0.00545 USD/h 0.0122 USD/h
Sao Paulo (BR) / sa-east-1
0.0063 USD/h 0.0151 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
2
Hypervisor
nitro
CPU Allocation
Burstable
CPU Cores
1
CPU Speed
2.2 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
AMD
CPU Family
EPYC
CPU Model
7571
CPU L1D Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
64 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
64 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
512 KiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
512 KiB
CPU L3 Cache
8 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
8 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, mmxext, fxsr_opt, pdpe1gb, rdtscp, lm, constant_tsc, rep_good, nopl, nonstop_tsc, cpuid, extd_apicid, tsc_known_freq, pni, pclmulqdq, ssse3, fma, cx16, sse4_1, sse4_2, movbe, popcnt, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, cmp_legacy, cr8_legacy, abm, sse4a, misalignsse, 3dnowprefetch, topoext, vmmcall, fsgsbase, bmi1, avx2, smep, bmi2, rdseed, adx, smap, clflushopt, sha_ni, xsaveopt, xsavec, xgetbv1, clzero, xsaveerptr, arat, npt, nrip_save
Ecpus
1
Scalability
100

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
1 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
1 GiB
Memory Generation
DDR4
Memory Speed
3200 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
      0.09 Gbps
      Network Storage Speed Max
      2.085 Gbps
      Inbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      Outbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      IPv4
      0

      Server Description

      A budget-friendly, burstable x86_64 instance with AMD EPYC processing and minimal memory footprint for light, intermittent workloads.

      Burstable & BudgetGeneral Purpose

      Amazon Web Services t3a.micro is a burstable, budget-friendly instance utilizing the AWS Nitro hypervisor and an x86_64 AMD EPYC 7571 processor clocked at 2.2 GHz. It provides 2 vCPUs via 1 physical core with hyper-threading, paired with 1.0 GB of DDR4 memory. The instance does not feature local storage or GPU accelerators. Performance benchmarks, including stress-ng and memory bandwidth tests, consistently rank in the bottom 10%, though hardware-accelerated cryptography (AES and SHA_NI) offers slightly better relative performance in encryption tests. Given its burstable CPU allocation and low resource footprint, the t3a.micro is qualitatively highly cost-efficient for lightweight workloads. It is best suited for low-traffic web serving, microservices, code repositories, and development or testing environments that require intermittent compute bursts rather than sustained high performance.

      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.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) 106,591 ops/sec 1,917,397 ops/sec 0.0556 50.00% 55.60% -79.90%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 683,716 ops/sec 11,681,410 ops/sec 0.0585 20.00% 22.20% -46.80%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 0 2,418 — 10.00% 0.00% — invalid value: 0.0
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 21,743 MB/sec 108,140 MB/sec 0.201 10.00% 11.10% -16.30%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 1,393 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.589 10.00% 11.10% -5.71%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 1864
      Compression
      		 21310
      Encryption
      		 1614
      Extended Instructions
      		 774
      Floating Point Maths
      		 2724
      Integer Maths
      		 5173
      Physics
      		 215
      Prime Numbers
      		 9
      Single Threaded
      		 1393
      String Sorting
      		 3225

      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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