Instances›AWS EC2›t3›t3.large
Compute
vCPUs2
Memory8 GiB
Mem / vCPU4.00 GiB
ProcessorSkylake E5 2686 v5
Clock speed3.1 GHz
Architecturex86_64
Storage
TypeEBS only
Bandwidth2,780 Mbps
Throughput347.5 MB/s
IOPS15,700
Networking
PerformanceUp to 5 Gigabit
Max ENIs3
IPv6Yes
GPUNone
Family sizes
t3.nano2 vCPU · 0.5 GiB
t3.micro2 vCPU · 1 GiB
t3.small2 vCPU · 2 GiB
t3.medium2 vCPU · 4 GiB
t3.large2 vCPU · 8 GiB
t3.xlarge4 vCPU · 16 GiB
t3.2xlarge8 vCPU · 32 GiB
t3.large

The t3.large is a general-purpose AWS EC2 instance: 2 vCPU and 8 GiB of memory, 4.00 GiB per vCPU. In the name, "t" is burstable, "3" is the generation and "large" is the size within the t3 family. It runs on Intel Skylake E5 2686 v5 at 3.1 GHz, and AWS introduced it in August 2018. AWS has since shipped t4g and t8i; t4g.large is the direct replacement at this size, scoring 39,596 CoreMark/s against this instance's 27,293 — roughly 45% more throughput for the same vCPU count. The nearest Spot node is gp.vs1.large at 4 vCPU and 16 GiB — 2 more vCPU and 8 GiB more memory, about 87% 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$0.083$0.022$0.052$0.036$0.011
$0.072 savings
US Central, Chicagono AWS region$0.011
US Central, Dallasno AWS region$0.021
Hong Kong$0.117$0.073$0.050$0.011
$0.106 savings
Sydney, Australia$0.106$0.041$0.067$0.046$0.011
$0.095 savings
London, UK$0.094$0.013$0.059$0.041$0.026
$0.068 savings
US West, San Jose$0.099$0.029$0.063$0.043$0.041
$0.058 savings
US Central, Dallas 2no AWS region$0.041
US East, N. Virginia 2$0.083$0.022$0.052$0.036$0.041
$0.042 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 8 GiB of RAM
  • ●Small, steady services that do not need more than 2 vCPU
  • ●Network-heavy services — AWS rates this size at Up to 5 Gigabit
Avoid if
  • ●Starting a new deployment. t4g.large is the newer generation at this size.
  • ●The working set needs more than 8 GiB of RAM
  • ●Local NVMe or instance-store disk is a hard requirement
  • ●GPU or FPGA acceleration is needed
  • ●Sustained full-core CPU load. A compute-optimized family costs less per unit of work.
  • ●More than 4.00 GiB of RAM per vCPU is needed — that ratio is fixed for the whole family
$61/mo on AWS on-demand against $8/mo on Rackspace Spot for the equivalent — market-priced, not list-priced.
  • 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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