Per-hour pricing

Region	AWS on-demand	AWS Spot	1-yr Reserved	3-yr Reserved	Rackspace Spot	You save
US East, N. Virginia	$0.005	$0.001	$0.003	$0.002	$0.002	$0.003 savingsBuild Cloudspace
US Central, Chicago	no AWS region				$0.016
US Central, Dallas	no AWS region				$0.006
Hong Kong	$0.007		$0.005	$0.003	$0.002	$0.005 savingsBuild Cloudspace
Sydney, Australia	$0.007	$0.001	$0.004	$0.003	$0.006	$0.001 savingsBuild Cloudspace
London, UK	$0.006	$0.001	$0.004	$0.003	$0.041
US West, San Jose	$0.006	$0.002	$0.004	$0.003	$0.011
US Central, Dallas 2	no AWS region				$0.021
US East, N. Virginia 2	$0.005	$0.001	$0.003	$0.002	$0.011

Monthly pricing (730 hrs)

Region	AWS on-demand	AWS Spot	1-yr Reserved	3-yr Reserved	Rackspace Spot	You save
US East, N. Virginia	$4	$0	$2	$2	$1	$2 savingsBuild Cloudspace
US Central, Chicago	no AWS region				$12
US Central, Dallas	no AWS region				$4
Hong Kong	$5		$3	$2	$1	$4 savingsBuild Cloudspace
Sydney, Australia	$5	$1	$3	$2	$4	$0 savingsBuild Cloudspace
London, UK	$4	$0	$3	$2	$30
US West, San Jose	$5	$1	$3	$2	$8
US Central, Dallas 2	no AWS region				$15
US East, N. Virginia 2	$4	$0	$2	$2	$8

Instances›AWS EC2›t3›t3.nano

Compute

vCPUs2

Memory0.5 GiB

Mem / vCPU0.25 GiB

ProcessorSkylake E5 2686 v5

Clock speed3.1 GHz

Architecturex86_64

Storage

TypeEBS only

Bandwidth2,085 Mbps

Throughput260.625 MB/s

IOPS11,800

Networking

PerformanceUp to 5 Gigabit

Max ENIs2

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.nano

t3.nano is AWS's general-purpose EC2 size at 2 vCPU and 0.5 GiB. In the name, "t" is burstable, "3" is the generation and "nano" 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.nano is the direct replacement at this size, scoring 38,489 CoreMark/s against this instance's 28,751 — roughly 34% more throughput for the same vCPU count. On Rackspace Spot the same shape is gp.vs1.medium — 2 vCPU, 4 GiB, matched on both dimensions, about 62% below the US East (N. Virginia) on-demand rate.

Pricing by region

1 hr

Region	AWS on-demand	AWS Spot	1-yr Reserved	3-yr Reserved	Rackspace Spot	You save
US East, N. Virginia	$0.005	$0.001	$0.003	$0.002	$0.002	$0.003 savingsBuild Cloudspace
US Central, Chicago	no AWS region				$0.016
US Central, Dallas	no AWS region				$0.006
Hong Kong	$0.007		$0.005	$0.003	$0.002	$0.005 savingsBuild Cloudspace
Sydney, Australia	$0.007	$0.001	$0.004	$0.003	$0.006	$0.001 savingsBuild Cloudspace
London, UK	$0.006	$0.001	$0.004	$0.003	$0.041
US West, San Jose	$0.006	$0.002	$0.004	$0.003	$0.011
US Central, Dallas 2	no AWS region				$0.021
US East, N. Virginia 2	$0.005	$0.001	$0.003	$0.002	$0.011

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 0.5 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.nano is the newer generation at this size.
●The working set needs more than 0.5 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 0.25 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

Stop overpaying AWS. This compute costs $4/mo on AWS vs $1/mo on Rackspace Spot.

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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