The t2.micro is a general purpose instance in the t2 family with 1 vCPU and 1 GiB of memory on Intel Xeon Family. It costs $8.47 a month on-demand in us-east-1 (N. Virginia) and is offered in 16 regions.
The list price has not changed in this window. Spot moves with demand and is read every few minutes.
First year, 3 instances
Spot saves $226.01 a year
Reserved capacity is billed every hour of the month whether it runs or not. A 1-yr reservation is cheaper once these run more than 15 h a day.
1.3g CO₂ an hour in us-east-1
0.9 kg a month. Grid 322 g per kWh.
Lowest-carbon regions for this type. The dirtiest emits 15× the cleanest.
| $8.47 | $2.19 | 74% | 1 | |
| $8.47 | $1.24 | 85% | 2 | |
| $8.47 | $2.41 | 72% | 1 | |
| $9.05 | $2.70 | 70% | 3 | |
| $9.20 | $2.48 | 73% | 1 | |
| $9.34 | $2.63 | 72% | 1 | |
| $9.64 | $3.21 | 67% | 0 | |
| $9.64 | $2.85 | 70% | 1 |
curl "https://prices.cloudadapt.io/api/v1/compute/aws/t2.micro?region=us-east-1"
List prices from AWS in US dollars, before discounts, credits and taxes. A month is 730 hours, a year 8,760. AWS pricing page