t8i.medium pricing and specs in US West (Oregon)
2 vCPU · 4 GiB · Up to 6.25 Gigabit · Intel Xeon Scalable (Granite Rapids)
$0.0499/hour on-demand · $36/month (Linux, Shared)
t8i.medium is a burstable general-purpose EC2 instance with 2 vCPU and 4 GiB, generation 8 of the t family. On-demand it costs $0.0499 an hour, about $36 a month if it runs all month. There is no newer generation at this size in US West (Oregon). Across regions the cheapest place to run t8i.medium is US East (N. Virginia) (us-east-1) at $0.0499 an hour, 0% below US West (Oregon).
Pricing by OS (hourly, USD, Shared)
| Option | Linux | Windows | RHEL | SUSE | Ubuntu Pro |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| On-Demand | $0.0499 | $0.0720 | $0.0787 | $0.1062 | $0.0534 |
| Spot | $0.0230 | $0.0283 | — | — | — |
Spot by AZ (7-day p50, Linux): us-west-2b $0.0222 · us-west-2a $0.0245 · us-west-2d $0.0137 · us-west-2c $0.0237
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.
No Graviton equivalent at this sizeNo newer generation of this size is priced in US West (Oregon).
Cheapest regions for t8i.medium
| Region | On-Demand $/h | vs us-west-2 | Saves / mo |
|---|---|---|---|
| US East (N. Virginia) us-east-1 | $0.0499 | 0.0% | $0 |
| US East (Ohio) us-east-2 | $0.0499 | 0.0% | $0 |
| US West (Oregon) us-west-2 | $0.0499 | current | — |
| Asia Pacific (Mumbai) ap-south-1 | $0.0538 | +8% | $-3 |
| Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) ap-south-2 | $0.0538 | +8% | $-3 |
| EU (Ireland) eu-west-1 | $0.0547 | +10% | $-4 |
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 (us-west-2)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-06 | $0.0499 | $0.0720 | — | — | $0.0230 |
| 2026-11-05 | $0.0499 | $0.0720 | — | — | $0.0233 |
| 2026-11-03 | $0.0499 | $0.0720 | — | — | $0.0234 |
| 2026-11-02 | $0.0499 | $0.0720 | — | — | $0.0235 |
| 2026-10-31 | $0.0499 | $0.0720 | — | — | $0.0236 |
| 2026-10-30 | $0.0499 | $0.0720 | — | — | $0.0234 |
| 2026-10-29 | $0.0499 | $0.0720 | — | — | $0.0233 |
| 2026-10-27 | $0.0499 | $0.0720 | — | — | $0.0232 |
| 2026-10-26 | $0.0499 | $0.0720 | — | — | $0.0232 |
| 2026-10-25 | $0.0499 | $0.0720 | — | — | $0.0232 |
| 2026-10-24 | $0.0499 | $0.0720 | — | — | $0.0231 |
| 2026-10-23 | $0.0499 | $0.0720 | — | — | $0.0230 |
| 2026-10-21 | $0.0499 | $0.0720 | — | — | $0.0228 |
| 2026-10-20 | $0.0499 | $0.0720 | — | — | $0.0228 |
| 2026-10-19 | $0.0499 | $0.0720 | — | — | $0.0227 |
| 2026-10-17 | $0.0499 | $0.0720 | — | — | $0.0228 |
| 2026-10-14 | $0.0499 | $0.0720 | — | — | $0.0230 |
| 2026-10-13 | $0.0499 | $0.0720 | — | — | $0.0233 |
| 2026-10-12 | $0.0499 | $0.0720 | — | — | $0.0237 |
| 2026-10-11 | $0.0499 | $0.0720 | — | — | $0.0239 |
| 2026-10-10 | $0.0499 | $0.0720 | — | — | $0.0242 |
| 2026-10-09 | $0.0499 | $0.0720 | — | — | $0.0244 |
| 2026-10-08 | $0.0499 | $0.0720 | — | — | $0.0245 |
| 2026-10-07 | $0.0499 | $0.0720 | — | — | $0.0243 |
| 2026-10-06 | $0.0499 | $0.0720 | — | — | $0.0241 |
| 2026-10-05 | $0.0499 | $0.0720 | — | — | $0.0236 |
| 2026-10-04 | $0.0499 | $0.0720 | — | — | $0.0232 |
| 2026-10-03 | $0.0499 | $0.0720 | — | — | $0.0227 |
| 2026-10-02 | $0.0499 | $0.0720 | — | — | $0.0222 |
| 2026-10-01 | $0.0499 | $0.0720 | — | — | $0.0220 |
All attributes
- vCPU
- 2
- Cores / threads per core
- 1 / 2
- Memory
- 4 GiB
- Memory per vCPU
- 2.00 GiB
- Processor
- Intel Xeon Scalable (Granite Rapids)
- Architecture
- x86_64
- Sustained clock
- 3.9 GHz
- Hypervisor
- nitro
- Generation
- Current
- Burstable
- Yes
- Bare metal
- No
- Free tier eligible
- No
- Network performance
- Up to 6.25 Gigabit
- Network baseline / burst
- 0.256 / 6.25 Gbps
- Max ENIs × IPv4 per ENI
- 3 × 6
- IPv6 / ENA / EFA
- IPv6 / ENA / —
- EBS optimized
- Yes
- EBS bandwidth (baseline / max)
- 347 / 5000 Mbps
- EBS IOPS (baseline / max)
- 2,000 / 20000
- EBS NVMe
- required
- Instance storage
- EBS only
- GPU
- —
- Placement groups
- partition, spread
- Hibernation / Nitro Enclaves
- Yes / No
- Dedicated hosts
- —
- Boot modes
- legacy-bios, uefi
- Spot supported
- Yes
Public AWS list prices (USD), refreshed nightly (catalog 2026-11-06). 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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