AWS

T4G Medium

EC2 Instance

About

t4g.medium

instance

This instance is an AWS Graviton2-based instance offering 2 vCPU and 0.5 GiB memory. It is part of the T4g family, which provides a balance of compute, memory, and network resources. T4g instances offer up to 40% better price-performance compared to T3 instances, making them particularly cost-effective for ARM-compatible workloads.[link]

Pricing of

t4g.medium

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Spot Pricing Details for

t4g.medium

Here's the latest prices for this instance across this region:

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Frequency of Interruptions: n/a

Frequency of interruption represents the rate at which Spot has reclaimed capacity during the trailing month. They are in ranges of < 5%, 5-10%, 10-15%, 15-20% and >20%.

Compute features of

t4g.medium

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Storage features of

t4g.medium

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Networking features of

t4g.medium

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Operating Systems Supported by

t4g.medium

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t4g.medium

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General Information about

t4g.medium

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Benchmark Test Results for

t4g.medium

CPU Encryption Speed Benchmarks

Cloud Mercato tested CPU performance using a range of encryption speed tests:

Encryption Algorithm	Speed (1024 Block Size, 4 threads)
AES-128 CBC	387.0MB
AES-256 CBC	287.4MB
MD5	768.0MB
SHA256	2.8GB
SHA512	722.2MB

I/O Performance

Cloud Mercato's tested the I/O performance of this instance using a 100GB General Purpose SSD. Below are the results:

	Read	Write
Max	3099	3099
Average	3097	3094
Deviation	3.36	4.42
Min	3089	3083

I/O rate testing is conducted with local and block storages attached to the instance. Cloud Mercato uses the well-known open-source tool FIO. To express IOPS the following parametersare used: 4K block, random access, no filesystem (except for write access with root volume and avoidance of cache and buffer.

See Cloud Mercato's full benchmark results for t4g.nano here

Use cases

These instances are suitable for a variety of low-demand workloads, including:

Micro-services
Low-latency interactive applications
Small and medium databases
Virtual desktops
Development environments
Code repositories
Business-critical applications.

Example Usage

Developers have used this instances in various real-world and test scenarios:

Low-traffic WordPress blogs: A performance test showed that this instance could reliably handle 10 concurrent users with a 30-45 second think time between requests.[link]
JMeter load generators: Used for conducting performance tests on web applications.[link]
Running tests and executing operational scripts: Suitable for intermittent, low-resource tasks.[link]
Development environments: Cost-effective for small-scale development work.[link]

Performance Insights

In a WordPress blog test, memory consumption reached 57-60%, while CPU usage did not exceed 6%[link]
At 6% constant CPU usage, it would take about 50 hours to exhaust the initial 30 CPU credits[link]
T4g instances offer up to 40% better performance at 20% lower cost compared to T3 instances[link]

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t4g.medium

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