Instances›AWS EC2›t8i›t8i.medium
Compute
vCPUs2
Memory4 GiB
Mem / vCPU2.00 GiB
ProcessorXeon Scalable
Clock speed3.9 GHz
Architecturex86_64
Storage
TypeEBS only
Bandwidth5,000 Mbps
Throughput625 MB/s
IOPS20,000
Networking
PerformanceUp to 6.25 Gigabit
Max ENIs3
IPv6Yes
GPUNone
Family sizes
t8i.nano2 vCPU · 0.5 GiB
t8i.micro2 vCPU · 1 GiB
t8i.small2 vCPU · 2 GiB
t8i.medium2 vCPU · 4 GiB
t8i.medium

t8i.medium is AWS's general-purpose EC2 size at 2 vCPU and 4 GiB. In the name, "t" is burstable, "8" is the generation, "i" marks Intel processors and "medium" is the size within the t8i family. It runs on Intel Xeon Scalable (Granite Rapids) at 3.9 GHz, and AWS introduced it in September 2026. t8i is the current generation of the t family, so there is no newer AWS size to migrate to. On Rackspace Spot the same shape is gp.vs2.medium — 2 vCPU, 4 GiB, matched on both dimensions, $0.050/hr on AWS in US East (N. Virginia), from $0.002/hr on Rackspace Spot.

Pricing by region
1 hr
RegionAWS on-demandAWS Spot1-yr Reserved3-yr ReservedRackspace SpotYou save
US East, N. Virginia$0.050$0.019$0.002
$0.048 savings
US Central, Chicagono AWS region$0.016
US Central, Dallasno AWS region$0.006
Hong Kong$0.002
Sydney, Australia$0.063$0.021$0.006
$0.057 savings
London, UK$0.057$0.015$0.041
$0.016 savings
US West, San Jose$0.059$0.013$0.011
$0.049 savings
US Central, Dallas 2no AWS region$0.021
US East, N. Virginia 2$0.050$0.019$0.011
$0.039 savings
When to use it
Good for
  • ●Development, staging and CI environments
  • ●Small to mid-size relational databases
  • ●Backend services with no single dominant resource
  • ●Workloads that fit inside 4 GiB of RAM
  • ●Small, steady services that do not need more than 2 vCPU
  • ●Network-heavy services — AWS rates this size at Up to 6.25 Gigabit
Avoid if
  • ●The working set needs more than 4 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
$36/mo on AWS on-demand against $1/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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