Instances›AWS EC2›t2›t2.small
Compute
vCPUs1
Memory2 GiB
Mem / vCPU2.00 GiB
ProcessorXeon Family
Clock speedUp to 3.3 GHz
Architecturei386, x86_64
Storage
TypeEBS only
BandwidthN/A
ThroughputN/A
IOPS0
Networking
PerformanceLow to Moderate
Max ENIs3
IPv6Yes
GPUNone
Family sizes
t2.nano1 vCPU · 0.5 GiB
t2.micro1 vCPU · 1 GiB
t2.small1 vCPU · 2 GiB
t2.medium2 vCPU · 4 GiB
t2.large2 vCPU · 8 GiB
t2.xlarge4 vCPU · 16 GiB
t2.2xlarge8 vCPU · 32 GiB
t2.small

t2.small is AWS's general-purpose EC2 size at 1 vCPU and 2 GiB. In the name, "t" is burstable, "2" is the generation and "small" is the size within the t2 family. It runs on Intel Xeon Family at Up to 3.3 GHz, and AWS introduced it in July 2014. AWS has since shipped t3, t4g and t8i; t3.small is the direct replacement at this size. Rackspace Spot maps this to gp.vs1.medium (2 vCPU, 4 GiB), giving you 1 more vCPU and 2 GiB more memory, about 91% below the US East (N. Virginia) on-demand rate.

Pricing by region
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RegionAWS on-demandAWS Spot1-yr Reserved3-yr ReservedRackspace SpotYou save
US East, N. Virginia$0.023$0.006$0.014$0.010$0.002
$0.021 savings
US Central, Chicagono AWS region$0.016
US Central, Dallasno AWS region$0.006
Hong Kong$0.002
Sydney, Australia$0.029$0.009$0.020$0.014$0.006
$0.023 savings
London, UK$0.026$0.007$0.018$0.013$0.041
US West, San Jose$0.028$0.009$0.020$0.014$0.011
$0.017 savings
US Central, Dallas 2no AWS region$0.021
US East, N. Virginia 2$0.023$0.006$0.014$0.010$0.011
$0.012 savings
When to use it
Good for
  • ●Backend services with no single dominant resource
  • ●Queue workers and scheduled jobs
  • ●Web and application servers with mixed CPU and memory demand
  • ●Workloads that fit inside 2 GiB of RAM
  • ●Small, steady services that do not need more than 1 vCPU
Avoid if
  • ●Starting a new deployment. t3.small is the newer generation at this size.
  • ●The working set needs more than 2 GiB of RAM
  • ●GPU or FPGA acceleration is needed
  • ●Sustained full-core CPU load. A compute-optimized family costs less per unit of work.
  • ●More than 2.00 GiB of RAM per vCPU is needed — that ratio is fixed for the whole family
  • ●Local NVMe or instance-store disk is a hard requirement
t2.small runs $17/mo on AWS on-demand. The equivalent on Rackspace Spot: $1/mo.
  • Spot sells spare capacity at market prices. It is the cheapest compute on the internet.
  • Prices are set by supply and demand. You pay what the market decides.
  • Compute is delivered as fully managed Kubernetes. All infrastructure is taken care of.
  • Egress costs $0.01/GB after the free allowance. AWS charges $0.09/GB.
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