t3.medium
Burstable general purpose · Intel (x86)
PostgreSQL benchmark results for the t3.medium AWS EC2 instance with 2 vCPU, 4 GiB RAM, and x86-64 architecture.
Compute
- vCPU
- 2
- Memory
- 4 GiB
- Mem / vCPU
- 2 : 1
Platform
- Family
- t3
- Architecture
- x86-64
- Performance
- Burstable
Cost & region
- On-demand
- $0.0416/hr~$30/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 (~3 GB of 4 GiB): the dataset no longer fits in cache, so the working set spills to disk and throughput drops.
All results
6 of 6 rows
| 1 GB | gp3-baseline | 3,401±2.8% | 53,551 | 9.41±2.8% | 66.21±0.1% | 71.13±0.3% | 1,701 | 850 |
| 10 GB | gp3-baseline | 2,490±0.9% | 39,203 | 12.85±0.9% | 67.40±0.1% | 70.30±0.3% | 1,245 | 623 |
| 50 GB | gp3-baseline | 2,023±0.2% | 31,854 | 15.82±0.2% | 22.15±0.3% | 24.79±0.7% | 1,012 | 506 |
| 1 GB | gp3-max | 3,243±0.5% | 16,172 | 9.87±0.5% | 66.46±0.1% | 71.26±0.2% | 1,621 | 811 |
| 10 GB | gp3-max | 2,465±0.6% | 12,294 | 12.98±0.6% | 67.38±0.0% | 70.38±0.1% | 1,233 | 616 |
| 50 GB | gp3-max | 2,083±0.2% | 10,389 | 15.36±0.2% | 67.73±0.0% | 70.46±0.0% | 1,042 | 521 |