t3.small vs i3.large

Instance Typet3.smalli3.large
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeStorage optimized
DetailsWebsites / web apps, dev environments, build servers, code repositories, microservices, test/staging, and business apps.

t – Burstable performance
3 – Generation
small – Size
NoSQL databases (like Cassandra, MongoDB, Redis), in-memory databases (such as Aerospike), scalable transactional databases, data warehousing, Elasticsearch, and analytics tasks.

i – IOPS / storage optimized
3 – Generation
large – Size
vCPUs22
Memory2 GiB15.25 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Skylake E5 2686 v5Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell)
Clock Speed2.5 GHz2.3 GHz
Threads Per Core22
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizest3.2xlarge, t3.large, t3.medium, t3.micro, t3.nano, t3.small, t3.xlargei3.16xlarge, i3.2xlarge, i3.4xlarge, i3.8xlarge, i3.large, i3.metal, i3.xlarge
Generationst2.small, t3.smalli2.large, i3.large, i4i.large, i7i.large
Variantst3a.smalli3en.large
SageMakerml.t3.small
RDSdb.t3.small
OpenSearcht3.small.searchi3.large.search
ElastiCachecache.t3.small
Free Tieryesno
Burstableyesno
Hibernationyesyes
EC2 Compute Units8
Instance StorageEBS only1 x 475 NVMe SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizeddefaultdefault
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMerequiredsupported
Dedicated Throughputup to 2085 MBps425 MBps
Optimized Baseline Bandwidth174 Mbps425 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Throughput21.75 Mbps53.125 Mbps
Optimized Baseline Performance1000 IOPS3000 IOPS
Optimized Max Performance11800 IOPS3000 IOPS
Optimized Max Bandwidth2085 Mbps425 Mbps
Optimized Max Throughput260.625 Mbps53.125 Mbps
Networking
Networking PerformanceUp to 5 GigabitUp to 10 Gigabit
Enhanced Networkingnoyes
Max Interfaces33
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface410
IPv6 Addresses per Interface410
IPv6 Supportyesyes
ENA Supportrequiredsupported
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnono
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x7.43x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
t3.small
i3.large
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.02160.1630
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.02360.1810
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.02380.1810
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.02380.1830
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.02400.1830
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)0.02400.1830
HiddenHidden (hidden-15)0.02400.1860
HiddenHidden (hidden-16)0.02440.1870
HiddenHidden (hidden-17)0.02440.1870
HiddenHidden (hidden-18)0.02450.1870
HiddenHidden (hidden-19)0.02480.1870
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.02180.1720
HiddenHidden (hidden-20)0.02510.1880
HiddenHidden (hidden-21)0.02510.1880
HiddenHidden (hidden-22)0.02600.1890
HiddenHidden (hidden-23)0.02640.1890
HiddenHidden (hidden-24)0.02640.2050
HiddenHidden (hidden-25)0.02640.2050
HiddenHidden (hidden-26)0.02640.2060
HiddenHidden (hidden-27)0.02640.2490
HiddenHidden (hidden-28)0.0271n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-29)0.0272n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.02240.1720
HiddenHidden (hidden-30)0.0272n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-31)0.0277n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-32)0.0292n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-33)0.0336n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.02240.1720
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.02280.1720
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.02280.1770
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.02320.1770
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.02320.1810
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.02360.1810
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.02080.1560
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.02080.1560
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.02080.1560
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