aws.amazon.com/about-aws/…/ec2-t8i-instances-ga People speculated that EC2 "burstable" performance instances were on the way out, with nothing new in the

t

instance type family since

t4g

was introduced in September, 2020. Here we are, with

t8i

after 6 years! General performance improvements and an Intel CPU come at a small premium. As of 2026-09-23, for 512 MiB of RAM and a fraction 2 vCPUs, the on-demand price per instance-hour in the

us-east-1

region is: • 0.624¢

t8i.nano

(about $4.50 per month) • 0.520¢

t3.nano

(under $4 per month) • 0.420¢

t4g.nano

(about $3 per month)