Amazon review
Updated September 28, 2026 · DeployCue Editorial Team · Facts checked September 26, 2026
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Our verdict
Amazon suits teams that want GPU compute, object storage, CDN and serverless on a single account and that weigh region count first. GPU hourly rate of $0.53 sits under the site median €0.63, and egress out to the internet is free for the first 100 each month.
Key facts
- Best for
- Teams consolidating GPU, storage, CDN and serverless on a single account.
- GPU models
- NVIDIA A10G, NVIDIA T4, NVIDIA H100 (Source, checked September 26, 2026)
- GPU hour from
- $0.526 (Source, checked September 26, 2026)
- Locations
- 39 (Source, checked September 26, 2026)
- Legal entity
- Amazon.com, Inc. (Source, checked September 26, 2026)
- Headquarters
- United States (Source, checked September 26, 2026)
- Founded
- 1994 (Source, checked September 26, 2026)
- Support channels
- Help-centre, Community (Source, checked September 26, 2026)
- Pricing model
- Hourly billing
- Official website
- amazon.com
Storage
- Free egress
- First 100 GB per month of data transfer out to the internet are free, aggregated across all AWS services and regions (except China and GovCloud) (Source, checked September 26, 2026)
- Minimum storage period
- 30 days (Source, checked September 26, 2026)
- Regions
- 39 (Source, checked September 26, 2026)
- Free egress (GB)
- 100 (Source, checked September 26, 2026)
- Storage types
- Object (Source, checked September 26, 2026)
- Legal entity
- Amazon.com, Inc. (Source, checked September 26, 2026)
- Headquarters
- United States (Source, checked September 26, 2026)
- Founded
- 1994 (Source, checked September 26, 2026)
- Support channels
- Help-centre, Community (Source, checked September 26, 2026)
Serverless
- Price per million requests
- $0.20 (Source, checked September 26, 2026)
- Price per GB-second
- $0.0000000167 (Source, checked September 26, 2026)
- Free requests
- 1,000,000 (Source, checked September 26, 2026)
- Maximum run time
- 900 (Source, checked September 26, 2026)
- Legal entity
- Amazon.com, Inc. (Source, checked September 26, 2026)
- Headquarters
- United States (Source, checked September 26, 2026)
- Founded
- 1994 (Source, checked September 26, 2026)
- Support channels
- Help-centre, Community (Source, checked September 26, 2026)
Kubernetes
- Control plane price
- $0.10 (Source, checked September 26, 2026)
- Free control plane
- No (Source, checked September 26, 2026)
- Locations
- 39 (Source, checked September 26, 2026)
- Legal entity
- Amazon.com, Inc. (Source, checked September 26, 2026)
- Headquarters
- United States (Source, checked September 26, 2026)
- Founded
- 1994 (Source, checked September 26, 2026)
- Support channels
- Help-centre, Community (Source, checked September 26, 2026)
Databases
- Price from
- $14.99 (Source, checked September 26, 2026)
- Free tier
- Yes (Source, checked September 26, 2026)
- Legal entity
- Amazon.com, Inc. (Source, checked September 26, 2026)
- Headquarters
- United States (Source, checked September 26, 2026)
- Founded
- 1994 (Source, checked September 26, 2026)
- Support channels
- Help-centre, Community (Source, checked September 26, 2026)
CDN
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Pros and cons
Pros
- Region reach of 39, well above the site median 4.
- Serverless request pricing of $0.20 against the site median €0.39, with 1,000,000 free requests.
- Free egress covers the first 100 of internet transfer each month, pooled across services and regions, and a CDN free tier is offered.
Cons
- The free control plane is not offered, and the control plane price is $0.10 against the site median €0.07.
- GPU instances bill on hourly billing only, so idle time on a long training run is charged at the same rate.
- Support runs on help centre and community only, so most questions go to documentation and community threads.
Who it suits
- Teams consolidating GPU, storage, CDN and serverless on a single account.
- Workloads that need presence in many places, given 39 regions.
- Serverless users planning around 1,000,000 free requests.
Who should look elsewhere
- SberCloud, if B300, H100 and A100 is the accelerator line-up you need.
- Salad, whose NVIDIA RTX 3060, NVIDIA RTX 3070 and NVIDIA RTX 3070 Ti are consumer and prosumer cards rather than datacentre accelerators.
How Amazon compares
Amazon vs Contabo9.2 vs 9.2
Amazon vs Kamatera9.2 vs 9.5
Amazon vs BytePlus9.2 vs 8.7
Amazon vs PlanetHoster9.2 vs 8.7
Amazon vs Acronis9.2 vs 9.9
Amazon vs Aruba9.2 vs 9.3
Amazon vs Proton Drive9.2 vs 8.3
Amazon vs AIS Cloud9.2 vs 8.1
Amazon vs Dell ECS / ObjectScale9.2 vs 8.0
Where Amazon is available
Countries from its affiliate programme (Source)
Frequently asked questions
How much does a GPU instance cost on Amazon?+
GPU instances start at $0.53 an hour on the on-demand list, and the machine types behind that figure include NVIDIA A10G, NVIDIA T4 and NVIDIA H100. Billing is hourly, so a job that stops early still pays for the hour it began in. On GPU hour price, Amazon sits at 33 of 95 brands tracked here.
Is data transfer out of object storage free?+
The first 100 of data transfer out to the internet each month is free, and the allowance is pooled across all Amazon services and regions. China and GovCloud sit outside it. Past that allowance, transfers fall onto your bill at the standard internet transfer rates.
Does the Kubernetes control plane cost anything?+
The free control plane is not offered. The control plane price is $0.10, above the site median €0.07 for the same comparison. Worker nodes are priced on top, and across the site the median node price is €9.15, so the control plane line is rarely the larger part of a cluster bill.
How much does serverless cost per request?+
Request pricing is $0.20, against the site median €0.39. Compute time is billed on top at $0.000000017 per GB-second, and 1,000,000 requests are free, which is enough for a light workload to sit inside the allowance. A function is capped at 900 seconds.
Which GPU models can I rent?+
Amazon's published GPU line-up is NVIDIA A10G, NVIDIA T4 and NVIDIA H100. Those types carry the entry price of $0.53 an hour, and billing is hourly rather than per second or per minute, which matters for short training and inference bursts. Longer catalogues elsewhere in this comparison cover parts Amazon does not list.
How many regions can I deploy to?+
Amazon's global infrastructure covers 39 regions, well above the site median 4. That spread matters for data residency and for serving users from a nearby edge. The operator is Amazon.com, Inc., headquartered in the United States and founded in 1994.
What support do I get?+
Support runs on help centre and community. There is no phone line and no live chat in that set, so everyday questions go to documentation and to community threads. Teams that need a faster answer for a running workload will have to look beyond the listed channels.
How long must I keep objects in storage?+
Object storage carries a minimum retention of 30 days, so short lived scratch data still bills for the full window before it can be removed. Storage is listed as object storage. Plan the lifecycle around that floor rather than treating buckets as purely temporary.
Sources
- aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure checked September 26, 2026
Backs: Regions
“The AWS Cloud spans 124 Availability Zones within 39 Geographic Regions”
- aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/regions_az checked September 26, 2026
Backs: Locations
“The AWS Cloud spans 124 Availability Zones within 39 Geographic Regions, with announced plans for 7 more Availability Zones and 2 more AWS Regions in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and Chile.”
- aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/pricing checked September 26, 2026
Backs: Free tier
“CDN Pricing, Plans & Free Tier - Amazon CloudFront”
- aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/g5 checked September 26, 2026
Backs: GPU models
- aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/on-demand checked September 26, 2026
Backs: GPU hour from, Pricing model
- aws.amazon.com/eks/pricing checked September 26, 2026
Backs: Control plane price, Free control plane
“Standard Kubernetes version support - $0.10 per cluster per hour”
- aws.amazon.com/lambda/pricing checked September 26, 2026
Backs: Free requests, Price per GB-second, Price per million requests
“The free tier includes one million requests and 400,000 GB-seconds per month.”
- aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport checked September 26, 2026
Backs: Support channels
“Get curated knowledge and community support to accelerate your AWS success”
- aws.amazon.com/s3 checked September 26, 2026
Backs: Storage types
“Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is an object storage service offering industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance”
- aws.amazon.com/s3/faqs checked September 26, 2026
Backs: Free egress (GB)
“new AWS customers receive 5 GB of Amazon S3 Standard storage, 20,000 Get Requests, 2,000 Put Requests, and 100 GB of data transfer out (to internet, other AWS Regions, or Amazon CloudFront) each...”
- aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing checked September 26, 2026
Backs: Free egress, Minimum storage period
“Data transferred out to the internet for the first 100GB per month, aggregated across all AWS Services and Regions (except China and GovCloud)”
- docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/gettingstarted-limit... checked September 26, 2026
Backs: Maximum run time
“Function timeout | 900 seconds (15 minutes).”
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_(company) checked September 26, 2026
Backs: Founded, Headquarters
“Founded July 5, 1994; 32 years ago (1994-07-05), in Bellevue, Washington, U.S.”
- aboutamazon.com/who-we-are checked September 26, 2026
Backs: Legal entity
“1996-2026 Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates”
- thepennyhoarder.com/save-money/amazon-prime-worth-it checked September 26, 2026
Backs: Price from
“Amazon Prime costs $139 per year or $14.99 per month”
Compiled from 15 source pages, checked September 26, 2026. We did not open an account.
Not confirmed yet: Billing granularity, Egress fee.
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