t3.large

Burstable general purpose · Intel (x86)

PostgreSQL benchmark results for the t3.large AWS EC2 instance with 2 vCPU, 8 GiB RAM, and x86-64 architecture.

Compute

vCPU
2
Memory
8 GiB
Mem / vCPU
4 : 1

Platform

Family
t3
Architecture
x86-64
Performance
Burstable

Cost & region

On-demand
$0.0832/hr~$61/mo
Region
us-east-1

Chart

Change the metric and disk to see how the numbers shift as the dataset grows — and where it stops fitting in memory.

Open markers sit past the RAM limit (~6 GB of 8 GiB): the dataset no longer fits in cache, so the working set spills to disk and throughput drops.

All results

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t3.large PostgreSQL benchmark results
1 GBgp3-baseline5,315±0.4%50,5626.02±0.4%56.08±0.1%61.05±0.0%2,657664
10 GBgp3-baseline4,048±5.2%38,5087.93±5.0%57.49±0.9%61.78±0.6%2,024506
50 GBgp3-baseline2,710±0.6%25,78211.81±0.6%17.59±0.7%20.54±1.0%1,355339
1 GBgp3-max4,985±2.7%20,5896.42±2.7%52.98±1.6%61.70±0.1%2,492623
10 GBgp3-max3,534±5.8%14,5969.08±5.5%53.89±5.0%62.07±0.7%1,767442
50 GBgp3-max3,421±1.1%14,1329.35±1.1%58.55±0.1%61.79±0.2%1,711428