Hetzner is a German hosting institution renowned for delivering the best price-to-performance ratio in Europe - cloud servers from €4/mo, bare-metal from €52/mo, and block storage at €0.04/GB. With data centers in Germany, Finland, and the US, a generous free tier, and ultra-low €0.0012/GB egress, it is the value benchmark for VPS and dedicated hosting.
Amazon Web Services
Amazon Web Services is the world's largest cloud provider with 200+ services across compute, storage, databases, ML, and networking. Dominates in enterprise with the broadest global region footprint and the deepest service catalog, but pricing complexity and egress fees add up at scale.
Categories:
Block storage
CDN
Managed databases
Egress
GPU cloud
Kubernetes
LLM inference
Object storage
Serverless CPU / functions
- Free tier
- Yes
- Free credits
- -
- Card required
- Yes
- API
- Yes
- CLI
- Yes
- Terraform
- Yes
- SLA uptime
- -
Block storage
Compare all →From $0.080
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EBS gp3 | ssd |
$0.080
/GB-mo
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CDN
Compare all →From $0.085
1 result
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CloudFront | $0.085 | 1,024 GB |
$0.085
/GB
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3 countries | Visit → |
Managed databases
Compare all →From $182.00
1 result
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RDS PostgreSQL (db.m5.large) | postgres |
$182.00
/mo
HA $327.60/mo
Verified
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3 countries | Visit → |
Egress
Compare all →From $0.090
1 result
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Data transfer out to internet | $0.090 |
$0.090
/GB
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3 countries | Visit → |
GPU cloud
Compare all →From $0.526
5 results
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G4dn (1x T4) | 1 | 16 GB | 4 | 16 GB |
$0.526
/GPU-hr
Spot $0.210/hr
Verified
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3 countries | Visit → |
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G6 (1x L4) | 1 | 24 GB | 4 | 16 GB |
$0.805
/GPU-hr
Verified
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3 countries | Visit → |
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P3 (1x V100) | 1 | 16 GB | 8 | 61 GB |
$3.06
/GPU-hr
Verified
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2 countries | Visit → |
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P4de (8x A100 80GB) | 8 | 640 GB | 96 | 1,152 GB |
$2.60
/GPU-hr
Spot $1.17/hr
Verified
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1 country | Visit → |
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P5 (8x H100) | 8 | 640 GB | 192 | 2,048 GB |
$3.40
/GPU-hr
Verified
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1 country | Visit → |
Kubernetes
Compare all →From $73.00
1 result
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EKS Standard | $73.00 | $0.096 | $17.30 |
$73.00
/mo
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3 countries | Visit → |
LLM inference
Compare all →From $0.720
5 results
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Bedrock Claude Haiku 4.5 | $5.00 | $1.00 | 200K |
$5.00
/M tokens
Input $1.00/1M tokens
Verified
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Global | Visit → |
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Bedrock Claude Opus 4.1 | $75.00 | $15.00 | 200K |
$75.00
/M tokens
Input $15.00/1M tokens
Verified
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Global | Visit → |
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Bedrock Claude Sonnet 4.5 | $15.00 | $3.00 | 200K |
$15.00
/M tokens
Input $3.00/1M tokens
Verified
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Global | Visit → |
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Bedrock Llama 3.3 70B | $0.720 | $0.720 | 128K |
$0.720
/M tokens
Input $0.720/1M tokens
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Global | Visit → |
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Bedrock Mistral Large 2 | $6.00 | $2.00 | 128K |
$6.00
/M tokens
Input $2.00/1M tokens
Verified
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Global | Visit → |
Object storage
Compare all →From $0.023
1 result
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S3 Standard | $0.090 | Yes |
$0.023
/GB-mo
Verified
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3 countries | Visit → |
Serverless CPU / functions
Compare all →From $0.200
1 result
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AWS Lambda | $16.67 |
$0.200
/1M req
Verified
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3 countries | Visit → |
Datacenter countries (3)
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Bunny.net has rapidly grown into one of the most affordable global CDNs, with volume-tiered pricing starting at $0.01/GB and a network of 120+ PoPs. Known for its simple setup, real-time analytics, and complementary Bunny Storage and Bunny Stream products, it is the budget-friendly alternative for media-heavy websites that need global delivery without enterprise price tags.
Frequently asked questions
What does Amazon Web Services offer?
Amazon Web Services publishes pricing across 9 product categories we track, listed by category below with per-unit pricing, specs, and region coverage.
How much does Amazon Web Services cost?
Each category section below shows Amazon Web Services's starting price and the full plan lineup. Prices are in USD and link straight to the provider.
Does Amazon Web Services have a free tier?
The facts panel shows whether Amazon Web Services offers a free tier, free credits, and whether a credit card is required to sign up.
Where are Amazon Web Services's datacenters?
The datacenter countries section lists every country where Amazon Web Services operates capacity that we have recorded, so you can pick a region near your users.
Is Amazon Web Services cheaper than the major clouds?
It depends on the product. Use the comparison links below to put Amazon Web Services head to head with rivals and see where it wins on price and where it does not.
How do I sign up for Amazon Web Services?
Use the visit button to go straight to Amazon Web Services. The facts panel notes whether a credit card or KYC is required and whether provisioning is instant.