db.t3.small

db.t3.small is an AWS RDS size with 2 vCPUs, 2 GiB memory (Intel Skylake E5 2686 v5 (2.5 GHz)). In US East (N. Virginia) it costs $0.036 per hour on demand ($26.28 per month) for PostgreSQL, Single-AZ; a 1-year reserved instance with no upfront costs $0.0258 per hour, 28% less. It is sold in 36 regions.

Prices by region

USD per hour, PostgreSQL, Single-AZ. Reserved prices are no upfront, standard. Cheapest on-demand first.

Region	On-demand	1-yr reserved
US East (N. Virginia) us-east-1	$0.036	$0.0258
US East (Ohio) us-east-2	$0.036	$0.0258
US West (Oregon) us-west-2	$0.036	$0.0258
EU (Stockholm) eu-north-1	$0.037	$0.0268
Mexico (Central) mx-central-1	$0.038	$0.0292
Europe (Spain) eu-south-2	$0.039	$0.03
EU (Ireland) eu-west-1	$0.039	$0.0266
Canada (Central) ca-central-1	$0.04	$0.0281
Canada West (Calgary) ca-west-1	$0.04	$0.031
AWS GovCloud (US-East) us-gov-east-1	$0.04	$0.0308
AWS GovCloud (US-West) us-gov-west-1	$0.04	$0.0308
EU (Milan) eu-south-1	$0.041	$0.028
EU (London) eu-west-2	$0.041	$0.0301
EU (Paris) eu-west-3	$0.041	$0.0288
Israel (Tel Aviv) il-central-1	$0.041	$0.0315
EU (Frankfurt) eu-central-1	$0.042	$0.0287
Middle East (UAE) me-central-1	$0.043	$0.031
Middle East (Bahrain) me-south-1	$0.043	$0.0293
Africa (Cape Town) af-south-1	$0.046	$0.0314
Europe (Zurich) eu-central-2	$0.046	$0.0356
US West (N. California) us-west-1	$0.048	$0.0339
Asia Pacific (Taipei) ap-east-2	$0.05	$0.0385
Asia Pacific (Malaysia) ap-southeast-5	$0.051	$0.0392
Asia Pacific (Thailand) ap-southeast-7	$0.051	$0.0392
Asia Pacific (Mumbai) ap-south-1	$0.053	$0.0412
Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) ap-south-2	$0.053	$0.0408
Asia Pacific (Tokyo) ap-northeast-1	$0.056	$0.0435
Asia Pacific (Seoul) ap-northeast-2	$0.056	$0.0435
Asia Pacific (Osaka) ap-northeast-3	$0.056	$0.0435
Asia Pacific (Singapore) ap-southeast-1	$0.056	$0.0441
Asia Pacific (Sydney) ap-southeast-2	$0.056	$0.0441
Asia Pacific (Jakarta) ap-southeast-3	$0.056	$0.0441
Asia Pacific (Melbourne) ap-southeast-4	$0.056	–
Asia Pacific (New Zealand) ap-southeast-6	$0.0588	$0.0452
Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) ap-east-1	$0.0616	$0.0485
South America (Sao Paulo) sa-east-1	$0.076	$0.0468

Reserved and Savings Plans

Prices by engine and deployment in US East (N. Virginia)

Option	On-demand /hr	1-yr reserved /hr	3-yr reserved /hr
PostgreSQL · Single-AZ	$0.036	$0.0258	–
PostgreSQL · Multi-AZ	$0.072	$0.0517	–
MariaDB · Single-AZ	$0.034	$0.0239	–
MySQL · Single-AZ	$0.034	$0.0239	–
Oracle Enterprise BYOL · Single-AZ	$0.034	$0.0214	–
Oracle Standard Two BYOL · Single-AZ	$0.034	$0.0214	–
Db2 Advanced · Single-AZ	$0.036	$0.0277	–
Db2 Advanced BYOL · Single-AZ	$0.036	$0.0277	–
Db2 Community BYOL · Single-AZ	$0.036	–	–
Db2 Standard · Single-AZ	$0.036	$0.0277	–
Db2 Standard BYOL · Single-AZ	$0.036	$0.0277	–
Aurora MySQL · Single-AZ	$0.041	$0.033	–
SQL Server Express · Single-AZ	$0.044	$0.0277	–
Aurora MySQL I/O Optimized · Single-AZ	$0.053	–	–
MariaDB · Multi-AZ	$0.068	$0.0478	–
MySQL · Multi-AZ	$0.068	$0.0478	–
Oracle Enterprise BYOL · Multi-AZ	$0.068	$0.0428	–
Oracle Standard Two BYOL · Multi-AZ	$0.068	$0.0428	–
Db2 Advanced · Multi-AZ	$0.072	$0.0554	–
Db2 Advanced BYOL · Multi-AZ	$0.072	$0.0554	–
Db2 Community BYOL · Multi-AZ	$0.072	–	–
Db2 Standard · Multi-AZ	$0.072	$0.0554	–
Db2 Standard BYOL · Multi-AZ	$0.072	$0.0554	–
Oracle Standard Two · Single-AZ	$0.075	$0.0473	–
SQL Server Web · Single-AZ	$0.139	$0.0875	–
Oracle Standard Two · Multi-AZ	$0.15	$0.0945	–
SQL Server Web · Multi-AZ	$0.2104	–	–

Specs

Compute	Value
vCPUs	2
Physical cores	1
Threads per core	2
Architecture	x86_64
Processor	Intel Skylake E5 2686 v5 (2.5 GHz)
CPU maker	Intel
Sustained clock	2.5 GHz
Burstable	Yes

Memory	Value
Memory (GiB)	2

Networking	Value
Network	Low to Moderate
Network baseline	0.128 Gbps
Network peak	5 Gbps

Storage	Value
Storage	EBS Only
EBS baseline bandwidth	174 Mbps
EBS max bandwidth	2,085 Mbps
EBS baseline throughput	21.75 MB/s
EBS max throughput	260.625 MB/s
EBS baseline IOPS	1,000
EBS max IOPS	11,800

Instance details	Value
Instance type	db.t3.small
Family	t3
Category	General purpose
Current generation	Yes
Normalization factor	1

Other	Value
Hardware Basis	t3.small

Compare db.t3.small

Other generations

vs db.t2.small

Other t3 sizes

Size	vCPUs	Memory (GiB)	On-demand /hr
db.t3.micro	2	1	$0.018
db.t3.small	2	2	$0.036
db.t3.medium	2	4	$0.072
db.t3.large	2	8	$0.145
db.t3.xlarge	4	16	$0.29
db.t3.2xlarge	8	32	$0.579

Prices updated 2026-11-12 from AWS public price lists. Compare all AWS RDS sizes.