Alternatives to Amazon AWS
These featured providers are the closest alternatives to Amazon AWS, selected using provider category, data-center locations, entry prices and comparable VPS plans.
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Top alternatives to Amazon AWS for Performance
Featured VPS provider with comparable plans. Shares 1 data-center country.
Locations: Netherlands, United Kingdom
Featured VPS provider with comparable plans. Shares 1 data-center country.
Locations: United States
Featured VPS provider with comparable plans. Shares 5 data-center countries.
Locations: Estonia, France, Germany, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Sweden, United States
Featured VPS provider with comparable plans. Shares 1 data-center country.
Locations: Germany
Price and performance at a glance
Performance is a price-weighted score (out of 100). Entry price is the lowest current monthly VPS price we track.
Price-weighted performance
The score averages the price-weighted scores of each provider's three most recent graded trials (or all available trials when fewer than three exist). A plan score combines web performance, raw CPU capacity, performance stability, disk I/O and network performance; lower plan prices improve the price-weighted score. 100 is best.
Entry monthly price
This is each provider's lowest current monthly VPS price, converted to USD. Bar lengths are relative to the highest entry price shown.
Storage prices
Object and block storage prices for Amazon AWS and its selected alternatives. Pricing details vary by product and region.
Object storage
| Provider | Product | Price / GB / month | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon AWS |
S3 Standard
S3 standard. |
$0.023 |
Egress: $0.090 / GB
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Block storage
| Provider | Product | Price / GB / month | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon AWS |
gp2
gp2 is the default EBS volume type for Amazon EC2 instances (SSD). Baseline performance of 3 IOPS/GB (minimum 100 IOPS) to a maximum of 16,000 IOPS, and provide up to 250 MB/s of throughput per volume. |
$0.100 |
IOPS allowance:
Max IOPS Burst: 3000 Throughput price per MBps: Throughput allowance MBps: View provider pricing |
| Amazon AWS |
gp3
General purpose SSD (gp3). IOPS and throughput are charged extra. |
$0.080 |
IOPS price:
$0.005 IOPS allowance: 3000 Throughput price per MBps: $0.040 Throughput allowance MBps: 125 MBps View provider pricing |
| Amazon AWS |
st1
Throughput Optimized HDD (st1) Volumes. |
$0.045 |
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Features and locations
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| Feature | Amazon AWS | quicksrv.io | Nobull Networks | TakeHost.Biz | GS WEBSERVICES |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Headquarters | USA | Netherlands | USA | Estonia | Germany |
| Locations | Africa: 1 Asia: 11 Europe: 9 North America: 2 South America: 1 Oceania: 1 | Europe: 2 | North America: 1 | Europe: 7 North America: 1 | Europe: 1 |
| Backups | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Block storage | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Object storage | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Load balancer | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| DDoS protection | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No |
| Hourly Billing | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| SSH Keys Setup | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Backups | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Firewall | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| IPv6 support | Yes | No | No | Yes | No |
| Total Number of Datacenters | 36 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 2 |
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Price and performance by plan
Each dot is a plan used in the price-weighted performance chart above. Its vertical position is the average PW score from its contributing recent trials.