Hyperscaler Providers
All hyperscalers and challengers in one place with their main characteristics and pricing.
Hyperscalers Overview
| Alibaba Cloud | |
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16 countries
4 continents |
| Amazon AWS | |
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25 countries
5 continents |
| Google Compute Engine | |
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30 countries
5 continents |
| Microsoft Azure | |
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22 countries
5 continents |
| ORACLE Cloud | |
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25 countries
5 continents |
Services
Services Availability Matrix
Detailed Pricing
Detailed pricing for Compute, Storage Load Balancers and Managed Databases
Compute Cost
On-demand cost of a single server. Plans on display below are the latest generation of servers with Intel CPUs (AMD if Intel is not available) for each provider. Prices are on-demand hourly prices in the USA. Storage and network costs are excluded unless mentionned otherwise.
| Hyperscaler | One server 4 cores ~16GB RAM | One server 8 cores ~32GB RAM |
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| Alibaba Cloud |
ecs.g8i.xlarge $0.173 / hour |
ecs.g8i.2xlarge $0.346 / hour |
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ecs.g8a.2xlarge $0.304 / hour |
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| Amazon AWS |
m7a.xlarge $0.232 / hour |
m7i.2xlarge $0.403 / hour |
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m8g.xlarge $0.180 / hour |
m8g.2xlarge $0.359 / hour |
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m7i.xlarge $0.202 / hour |
m7a.2xlarge $0.464 / hour |
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| Google Compute Engine |
c4-standard-4 $0.198 / hour |
n4-standard-8 $0.394 / hour |
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c4-standard-8 $0.395 / hour |
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c4d-standard-8 $0.374 / hour |
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| Microsoft Azure |
D4as_v6 $0.182 / hour |
D8s v5 $0.394 / hour |
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D8as_v6 $0.363 / hour |
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| ORACLE Cloud |
A2 4 vCPUs 16GB $0.065 / hour |
E6 8 vCPUs 32GB $0.184 / hour |
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A2 8 vCPUs 32GB $0.125 / hour |
Block and Object Storage Cost
| Hyperscaler | Block Storage 1TB | Object Storage 1TB |
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| Alibaba Cloud |
Product name:
Enhanced SSD PL1
$152.0 / month |
Product name:
Standard Storage LRS $16.0 / month + Requests costs |
| Amazon AWS |
Product name:
gp2
$100.0 / month |
Product name:
S3 Standard $23.0 / month + Requests costs |
| Google Compute Engine |
Product name:
Balanced persistent disk
$110.0 / month |
Product name:
Cloud Storage Standard $23.0 / month + Requests costs |
| Microsoft Azure |
Product name:
Premium SSD
$135.0 / month |
Product name:
Azure Storage Blobs Hot $18.0 / month + Requests costs |
| ORACLE Cloud |
Product name:
Volume Storage Higher Performance
$59.5 / month |
Product name:
Standard Object Storage $25.5 / month + Requests costs |
Network Traffic
Prices are for east US locations unless mentioned otherwise.
| Hyperscaler | Bandwidth price | ||||||||
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| Alibaba Cloud |
Product name:
Elastic IP
VPS Free allowance: 0 GB / month
for a 2 core 4GB instance or closest available
Bandwidth Price:
Flat pricing: $0.076 / GB |
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| Amazon AWS |
Product name:
standard
VPS Free allowance: 100 GB / month
for a 2 core 4GB instance or closest available
Bandwidth Price:
Tiered pricing:
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| Google Compute Engine |
Product name:
standard
VPS Free allowance: 200 GB / month
for a 2 core 4GB instance or closest available
Bandwidth Price:
Tiered pricing:
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| Microsoft Azure |
Product name:
Microsoft Premium Global Network
VPS Free allowance: 100 GB / month
for a 2 core 4GB instance or closest available
Bandwidth Price:
Tiered pricing:
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| ORACLE Cloud |
Product name:
standard
VPS Free allowance: 10 TB / month
for a 2 core 4GB instance or closest available
Bandwidth Price:
Tiered pricing:
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Managed Databases
This is for a managed stand-alone on-demand Postgresql instance running in us-east on a 8 cores 32GB server unless mentioned otherwise. Reported storage is capacity pricing per GB per month. IOPS and thhroughput costs might be extra.
| Hyperscaler | Product Name Notes |
Instance Type | Storage Type |
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| Amazon AWS |
Amazon RDS RDS PostgreSQL |
db.m7i.2xlarge $0.712 / hr |
gp2 $0.115 / mo / GB |
| Google Compute Engine |
Cloud SQL Cloud SQL Postgresql |
c4a-standard-8 $0.720 / hr |
hyperdisk balanced $0.115 / mo / GB |
| Microsoft Azure |
Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server Postgresql flexible server |
D8ads v5 $0.712 / hr |
Premium SSD $0.115 / mo / GB |
| ORACLE Cloud |
Oracle Base Database Base Database |
Arm Enterprise 8C32G $1.720 / hr |
unspecified $0.026 / mo / GB |
Load Balancers
This is the pricing for a regional layer 7 load balancer running in us-east or central.
There are two pricing models for load balancers: Data Volume based and LCU based. The former is the most simple, you are charged primarily by the amount of data that goes in and out of the load balancer.
LCUs (Load Capacity Unit) measure the highest usage across a number of dimensions, usually new connections, active connections, processed bytes, and rule evaluations. The LCU includes a defined capacity in each of those dimensions and you are charged based on the maximum usage among these dimensions per hour. For example if one LCU includes a maximum of 1000 active connections and your usage was 12000 at one point during the hour, you are charged for 12 LCUs.
In all pricing models a base hourly price is added to the LCU or data processing cost.
Data transfer charges are extra unless mentioned otherwise. See network traffic for network prices.
| Hyperscaler | Product Name | Pricing |
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| Alibaba Cloud |
Server Load Balancer Basic Application Load Balancer Pricing Model: LCU Basic ALB price includes 1 LCU |
Hourly charge:
$0.007 / hour
LCU charge: $0.007 / hour Limits
Active Connections: 3000
New Connections Per Sec: 25 Rules Evaluations Per Sec: 1000 Data Processing Gb Per Hour: 1
SSL Termination: yes
Network traffic charged extra: yes |
| Amazon AWS |
Elastic Load Balancing Application Load Balancer Pricing Model: LCU |
Hourly charge:
$0.022 / hour
LCU charge: $0.008 / hour Limits
Active Connections: 3000
New Connections Per Sec: 25 Rules Evaluations Per Sec: 1000 Data Processing Gb Per Hour: 1
SSL Termination: yes
Network traffic charged extra: yes |
| Google Compute Engine |
Cloud Load Balancing HTTP/S Load Balancer Pricing Model: Data Volume |
Hourly charge:
$0.028 / hour
Data processing charge: $0.009 / GB Limits
Max Forwarding Rules: 5
SSL Termination: yes
Network traffic charged extra: yes |
| Microsoft Azure |
Azure Load Balancer Standard Load Balancer Pricing Model: Data Volume |
Hourly charge:
$0.025 / hour
Data processing charge: $0.005 / GB Limits
Max Forwarding Rules: 5
SSL Termination: yes
Network traffic charged extra: yes |
| ORACLE Cloud |
Flexible Load Balancer Flexible Load Balancer (layer 7) Pricing Model: Data Volume |
Hourly charge:
$0.011 / hour
SSL Termination: yes
Network traffic charged extra: yes |