t2.small pricing and specs in EU (Ireland)
1 vCPU · 2 GiB · Low to Moderate · Intel Xeon Family
$0.0250/hour on-demand · $18/month (Linux, Shared)
t2.small is a burstable general-purpose EC2 instance with 1 vCPU and 2 GiB, generation 2 of the t family. On-demand it costs $0.0250 an hour, about $18 a month if it runs all month. A one-year commitment with nothing up front works out at $0.0177 an hour and pays for itself above roughly 516 hours a month; below that, on-demand is cheaper. The three-year options go down to $0.0110 an hour, 56% below on-demand. The newer t4g.small offers the same size for $0.0184 an hour, 26% less and moves to Graviton. Across regions the cheapest place to run t2.small is US East (N. Virginia) (us-east-1) at $0.0230 an hour, 8% below EU (Ireland).
Pricing by OS (hourly, USD, Shared)
| Option | Linux | Windows | RHEL | SUSE | Ubuntu Pro |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| On-Demand | $0.0250 | $0.0340 | $0.0396 | $0.0550 | $0.0270 |
| Spot | $0.0103 | $0.0151 | — | — | — |
| 1y Std RI NU | $0.0177 | $0.0269 | $0.0321 | $0.0290 | — |
| 1y Std RI PU | $0.0164 | $0.0260 | $0.0312 | $0.0399 | — |
| 1y Std RI AU | $0.0166 | $0.0258 | $0.0309 | $0.0396 | — |
| 3y Std RI NU | $0.0127 | $0.0219 | $0.0271 | $0.0357 | — |
| 3y Std RI PU | $0.0118 | $0.0181 | $0.0262 | $0.0315 | — |
| 3y Std RI AU | $0.0110 | $0.0170 | $0.0254 | $0.0307 | — |
| 1y Conv RI NU | $0.0204 | $0.0296 | $0.0348 | $0.0434 | — |
| 3y Conv RI NU | $0.0146 | $0.0238 | $0.0290 | $0.0270 | — |
| 1y Compute SP NU | $0.0204 | $0.0296 | $0.0348 | $0.0434 | $0.0218 |
| 3y Compute SP NU | $0.0146 | $0.0238 | $0.0290 | $0.0376 | $0.0157 |
| 1y EC2 SP NU | $0.0177 | $0.0269 | $0.0321 | $0.0407 | $0.0191 |
| 3y EC2 SP NU | $0.0127 | $0.0219 | $0.0271 | $0.0357 | $0.0138 |
Spot by AZ (7-day p50, Linux): eu-west-1b $0.0103 · eu-west-1c $0.0099 · eu-west-1a $0.0103
Newer generations of the same size
Same family letter and size in a newer generation, ranked by price. “vCPU per $” uses vCPU as the performance proxy — newer chips usually add more, so it is a floor.
Graviton-eligible → t4g.small (-26%)| Type | $/h | Price Δ | vCPU per $ Δ | Saves / mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| t4g.small Graviton arch change | $0.0184 | -26% | +172% | $5 |
| t3a.small | $0.0204 | -18% | +145% | $3 |
| t3.small | $0.0228 | -9% | +119% | $2 |
| t8i.small | $0.0274 | +9% | +83% | $-2 |
Cheapest regions for t2.small
| Region | On-Demand $/h | vs eu-west-1 | Saves / mo |
|---|---|---|---|
| US East (N. Virginia) us-east-1 | $0.0230 | -8% | $1 |
| US East (Ohio) us-east-2 | $0.0230 | -8% | $1 |
| US West (Oregon) us-west-2 | $0.0230 | -8% | $1 |
| Asia Pacific (Mumbai) ap-south-1 | $0.0248 | -0.8% | $0 |
| EU (Ireland) eu-west-1 | $0.0250 | current | — |
| Canada (Central) ca-central-1 | $0.0256 | +2% | $-0 |
Caveat: instance price is only part of the bill. Cross-region and internet data transfer, latency to your users, data-residency rules and service availability can outweigh a few percent on compute.
Price history (eu-west-1)
Daily snapshots since the catalog started tracking this type; a row is added whenever a headline price changes.
| Date | OD Linux | OD Windows | 1y RI | 3y RI | Spot p50 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-16 | $0.0250 | $0.0340 | $0.0177 | $0.0127 | $0.0103 |
| 2026-10-13 | $0.0250 | $0.0340 | $0.0177 | $0.0127 | $0.0104 |
| 2026-10-10 | $0.0250 | $0.0340 | $0.0177 | $0.0127 | $0.0105 |
| 2026-10-05 | $0.0250 | $0.0340 | $0.0177 | $0.0127 | $0.0106 |
| 2026-09-27 | $0.0250 | $0.0340 | $0.0177 | $0.0127 | $0.0107 |
| 2026-09-22 | $0.0250 | $0.0340 | $0.0177 | $0.0127 | $0.0106 |
All attributes
- vCPU
- 1
- Cores / threads per core
- 1 / 1
- Memory
- 2 GiB
- Memory per vCPU
- 2.00 GiB
- Processor
- Intel Xeon Family
- Architecture
- i386, x86_64
- Sustained clock
- 2.5 GHz
- Hypervisor
- xen
- Generation
- Current
- Burstable
- Yes
- Bare metal
- No
- Free tier eligible
- No
- Network performance
- Low to Moderate
- Network baseline / burst
- 0.128 / 1.024 Gbps
- Max ENIs × IPv4 per ENI
- 3 × 4
- IPv6 / ENA / EFA
- IPv6 / — / —
- EBS optimized
- No
- EBS bandwidth (baseline / max)
- 1.0 / ? Mbps
- EBS IOPS (baseline / max)
- —
- EBS NVMe
- unsupported
- Instance storage
- EBS only
- GPU
- —
- Placement groups
- partition, spread
- Hibernation / Nitro Enclaves
- Yes / No
- Dedicated hosts
- —
- Boot modes
- legacy-bios
- Spot supported
- Yes
Public AWS list prices (USD), refreshed nightly (catalog 2026-10-22). RI and Savings Plan rates are effective hourly (upfront amortised over the term) and are charged for every hour of the term. Excludes taxes, data transfer and storage. How these numbers are sourced and checked. Not affiliated with Amazon Web Services.
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