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The ecs.e3.medium is an instance in the e3 family with 2 vCPU and 16 GiB of memory. It costs $95.63 a month on-demand in us-east-1 (Virginia) and is offered in 15 regions.
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1 Nov 2026
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| Pod requests | Pods | Per pod, a month |
|---|---|---|
| 100m CPU, 128 MiB | 19cpu | $5.03 |
| 250m CPU, 512 MiB | 7cpu | $13.66 |
| 500m CPU, 1 GiB | 3cpu | $31.88 |
| 1 CPU, 4 GiB | 1cpu | $95.63 |
Node share from GKE's published kube-reserved formula plus a 100 MiB eviction threshold; EKS and AKS keep similar amounts. DaemonSets take more on top. At most 110 pods per node, the kubelet default.
First year, 3 instances
Reserved capacity is billed every hour of the month whether it runs or not.
No grid or power data for this type in us-east-1.
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List prices from Alibaba Cloud in US dollars, before discounts, credits and taxes. A month is 730 hours, a year 8,760. Alibaba pricing page