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t2.medium

Part of the T2 General Purpose family — Balanced compute, memory, and networking for a wide range of workloads.

Name:tBurstable General Purposet = Burstable General PurposeCost-effective instances providing baseline CPU performance with the ability to burst above baseline when workload surges.22nd Generation2 = 2nd GenerationAWS 2nd generation hardware platform with updated CPU/system architecture.mediumMediummedium = Medium2 vCPUs • 4 GB RAM • EBS only • Low to Moderate Network
Price (Linux)
$0.0464/ hr
~$33.87/mo
Compute
2vCPUs
2 cores • x86_64
Memory
4GB
2.0 GB / vCPU
Value
$0.0232/ vCPU-hr
$0.0116/GB-hr
Network
Low to Moderate
Baseline: 0.256 Gbps
Storage & EBS
EBSOnly
EBS only

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Technical Specifications & Limits

Hardware specs, container thresholds, and system limits

Compute & Processor

ProcessorIntel Xeon Family
Architecturex86_64 (x86_64)
vCPUs / Threads2 vCPUs
Physical Cores2
Clock SpeedUp to 3.3 GHz
Intel AVX / AVX2AVX Supported
Intel Turbo BoostYes
Bare MetalNo (Virtualized)

Performance & Benchmarks

CoreMark Score41,051
CoreMark / vCPU20,525.5 / core
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CoreMark per Dollar884,720 score / $
Cost per vCPU-hr$0.0232
Cost per GB-hr$0.0116

Containers & Kubernetes

EKS Max Pods17 pods
Max ECS Tasks2 tasks
Max ENIs3
IPv4/v6 per ENI6
Total Addressable IPs18 total IPs
CNI Prefix DelegationStandard CNI

Networking & Bandwidth

Network PerformanceLow to Moderate
Baseline Bandwidth0.256 Gbps
Burst / Peak Bandwidth1.024 Gbps
Enhanced NetworkingNo
EFA SupportNo
IPv6 SupportNative Dual-Stack Supported

Storage & EBS Optimization

Storage ConfigurationEBS only
Local NVMe DiskNone (EBS only)
EBS Baseline Throughput—
EBS Max Throughput—
EBS Baseline IOPS—
EBS Max / Burst IOPS—
Dedicated EBS Throughput1 Mbps

Platform & Architecture Details

Hypervisor / SystemXen Hypervisor
Nitro EnclavesNot Supported
Normalization Factor2
Generation StatusCurrent Generation (Recommended)
Date Introduced2014-07-01

Regional Pricing Matrix

Live on-demand rates across all global AWS cloud regions
Lowest Price Region
$0.0464/ hr
US East (N. Virginia) (us-east-1)
Highest Price Region
$0.0744/ hr
South America (Sao Paulo) (sa-east-1)
Global Fleet Average
$0.0546/ hr
Across all active regions
Regional Coverage
17regions
Available worldwide
Linux — Available in all 17 regions
RegionOn-Demand Price
ap-south-1
Asia Pacific (Mumbai)
$0.0496
ap-northeast-3
Asia Pacific (Osaka)
$0.0608
ap-northeast-2
Asia Pacific (Seoul)
$0.0576
ap-southeast-1
Asia Pacific (Singapore)
$0.0584
ap-southeast-2
Asia Pacific (Sydney)
$0.0584
ap-northeast-1
Asia Pacific (Tokyo)
$0.0608
us-gov-west-1
AWS GovCloud (US-West)
$0.0544
ca-central-1
Canada (Central)
$0.0512
eu-central-1
EU (Frankfurt)
$0.0536
eu-west-1
EU (Ireland)
$0.0500
eu-west-2
EU (London)
$0.0520
eu-west-3
EU (Paris)
$0.0528
sa-east-1
South America (Sao Paulo)
Highest
$0.0744
us-east-1
US East (N. Virginia)
Lowest
$0.0464
us-east-2
US East (Ohio)
Lowest
$0.0464
us-west-1
US West (N. California)
$0.0552
us-west-2
US West (Oregon)
Lowest
$0.0464