Why Amazon EC2 T3 Instances?

T3 instances are the low cost burstable general purpose instance type that provide a baseline level of CPU performance with the ability to burst CPU usage at any time for as long as required. T3 instances are designed for applications with moderate CPU usage that experience temporary spikes in use.

T3 instances offer a balance of compute, memory, and network resources and are a very cost effective way to run a broad spectrum of general purpose workloads including large scale micro-services, small and medium databases, virtual desktops, and business-critical applications. T3 instances are also an affordable option to run your code repositories and development and test environments.

Amazon EC2 T3 instances are now supported on EC2 Dedicated Hosts!  Learn more

Amazon EC2 T3 Overview

Features

Product Details

  • T3
  • The T3 instances feature either the 1st or 2nd generation Intel Xeon Platinum 8000 series processor (Skylake-SP or Cascade Lake) with a sustained all core Turbo CPU clock speed of up to 3.1 GHz. Additionally there is support for the new Intel Advanced Vector Extensions 512 (AVX-512) instruction set, offering up to 2x the FLOPS per core compared to the previous generation T2 instances.

    Name vCPUs Memory (GiB) Baseline Performance/vCPU CPU Credits earned/hr Network burst bandwidth (Gbps) EBS burst bandwidth (Mbps) On-Demand Price/hr* 1-yr Reserved Instance Effective Hourly* 3-yr Reserved Instance Effective Hourly*
    t3.nano 2 0.5 5% 6
    5 Up to 2,085 $0.0052 $0.003 $0.002
    t3.micro 2 1.0 10% 12
    5 Up to 2,085 $0.0104 $0.006 $0.005
    t3.small 2
    2.0 20% 24
    5 Up to 2,085 $0.0209 $0.012 $0.008
    t3.medium 2 4.0 20% 24
    5 Up to 2,085 $0.0418 $0.025 $0.017
    t3.large 2 8.0 30% 36
    5 Up to 2,780 $0.0835 $0.05 $0.036
    t3.xlarge 4 16.0 40% 96
    5 Up to 2,780 $0.1670 $0.099 $0.067
    t3.2xlarge 8 32.0 40% 192
    5 Up to 2,780 $0.3341 $0.199 $0.133
  • T3a
  • The T3a instances feature AMD EPYC 7000 series processors with an all core turbo clock speed of 2.5 GHz. The AMD-based instances provide additional options for customers that do not fully utilize the compute resources and can benefit from a cost savings of 10%.

    $Name vCPUs Memory (GiB) Baseline Performance/vCPU CPU Credits earned/hr Network burst bandwidth (Gbps) EBS burst bandwidth (Mbps) On-Demand Price/hr* 1-yr Reserved Instance Effective Hourly* 3-yr Reserved Instance Effective Hourly*
    t3a.nano 2 0.5 5% 6
    5 Up to 2,085 $0.0047 $0.0028 $0.0019
    t3a.micro 2 1.0 10% 12
    5 Up to 2,085 $0.0094 $0.0056 $0.0038
    t3a.small 2
    2.0 20% 24
    5 Up to 2,085 $0.0188 $0.0112 $0.0075
    t3a.medium 2 4.0 20% 24
    5 Up to 2,085 $0.0376 $0.0224 $0.0150
    t3a.large 2 8.0 30% 36
    5 Up to 2,780 $0.0752 $0.0449 $0.0301
    t3a.xlarge 4 16.0 40% 96
    5 Up to 2,780
    $0.1504 $0.0898 $0.0602
    t3a.2xlarge 8 32.0 40% 192
    5 Up to 2,780
    $0.3008 $0.1796 $0.1203

*Prices shown are for Linux/Unix in US East (Northern Virginia) AWS Region. Prices for 1-year and 3-year reserved instances are for "Partial Upfront" payment options or "No upfront" for instances without the Partial Upfront option. For full pricing details, see the Amazon EC2 pricing page

T3 instances accumulate CPU credits when operating below baseline threshold. One CPU credit is equal to one vCPU running at 100% utilization for one minute. See T3 Unlimited documentation for details on CPU Credits and how they work.