t2.micro vs m3.medium

Instance Typet2.microm3.medium
Instance FamilyGeneral purposeGeneral purpose
DetailsWebsites / web apps, dev environments, build servers, code repositories, microservices, test/staging, and business apps.

t – Burstable performance
2 – Generation
micro – Size
Obsolete. Not recommended for use
Small to medium size databases, data processing, caching, backends.

m – Multi purpose
3 – Generation
medium – Size
vCPUs11
Memory1 GiB3.75 GiB
CPU Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon FamilyIntel Xeon E5-2670 v2 (Ivy Bridge/Sandy Bridge)
Clock Speed2.5 GHz2.5 GHz
Threads Per Core11
Accelerators
GPUnono
Inference Acceleratornono
FPGAnono
Instances
Sizest2.2xlarge, t2.large, t2.medium, t2.micro, t2.nano, t2.small, t2.xlargem3.2xlarge, m3.large, m3.medium, m3.xlarge
Generationst1.micro, t2.micro, t3.microm1.medium, m3.medium
RDSdb.t2.microdb.m3.medium
OpenSearcht2.micro.searchm3.medium.search
ElastiCachecache.t2.micro
Free Tiernono
Burstableyesno
Hibernationyesyes
EC2 Compute Units3
Instance StorageEBS only1 x 4 SSD
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
EBS Optimizedunsupportedunsupported
Encryptionsupportedsupported
NVMeunsupportedunsupported
Networking
Networking PerformanceLow to ModerateModerate
Enhanced Networkingnono
Max Interfaces22
Max Cards11
IPv4 Addresses per Interface26
IPv6 Addresses per Interface2
IPv6 Supportyesno
ENA Supportunsupportedunsupported
EFA Supportnono
Encryption in Transit Supportnono
ENA SRD Supportnono
Avg Price Diff1.00x6.12x

Regional Prices

US Dollar ($)
Per Hour
Linux
Shared Tenancy
On Demand
Geography
Region
t2.micro
m3.medium
EuropeEurope (Ireland) (eu-west-1)n/a0.0730
HiddenHidden (hidden-1)0.01240.0770
HiddenHidden (hidden-10)0.0146n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-11)0.0146n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-12)0.0152n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-13)0.0152n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-14)0.0186n/a
HiddenHidden (hidden-2)0.01260.0790
HiddenHidden (hidden-3)0.01280.0840
HiddenHidden (hidden-4)0.01320.0910
HiddenHidden (hidden-5)0.01320.0930
HiddenHidden (hidden-6)0.01340.0950
HiddenHidden (hidden-7)0.01360.0960
HiddenHidden (hidden-8)0.01380.0980
HiddenHidden (hidden-9)0.0144n/a
USUS East (Ohio) (us-east-2)0.0116n/a
USUS East (Virginia) (us-east-1)0.01160.0670
USUS West (Oregon) (us-west-2)0.01160.0670
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