t3.small

Burstable general purpose · Intel (x86)

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

Compute

vCPU
2
Memory
2 GiB
Mem / vCPU
1 : 1

Platform

Family
t3
Architecture
x86-64
Performance
Burstable

Cost & region

On-demand
$0.0208/hr~$15/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 (~2 GB of 2 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.small PostgreSQL benchmark results
1 GBgp3-baseline3,353±1.1%78,4869.55±1.1%66.53±0.1%71.05±0.2%1,6761,676
10 GBgp3-baseline2,470±0.5%57,82112.95±0.5%67.41±0.1%69.77±0.2%1,2351,235
50 GBgp3-baseline1,788±0.0%41,86017.89±0.0%22.17±0.2%24.03±0.1%894894
1 GBgp3-max3,205±0.5%17,8339.99±0.5%66.65±0.0%71.23±0.2%1,6021,602
10 GBgp3-max2,541±4.0%14,14212.61±4.1%67.31±0.2%69.47±0.6%1,2711,271
50 GBgp3-max2,147±0.5%11,94814.90±0.5%66.88±0.0%68.60±0.1%1,0741,074