Amazon Web Services review
Updated September 28, 2026 · DeployCue Editorial Team · Facts checked September 26, 2026
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Our verdict
Amazon Web Services suits teams that want functions, storage, Kubernetes, GPUs and model APIs under a single account, and the pricing rewards that breadth. Function requests cost $0.20, and 1,000,000 requests a month come at no charge, so the entry point is cheap before a workload grows.
Key facts
- Best for
- A single account covering serverless, storage, Kubernetes, GPUs and model APIs at competitive request pricing.
- 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)
- Compliance certifications
- PCI-DSS, HIPAA/HITECH, FedRAMP, GDPR, FIPS 140-3, NIST 800-171 (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
- Phone, Chat, Help-centre, Community (Source, checked September 26, 2026)
- Official website
- amazon.com
VPS
- Entry price
- $3.50 (Source, checked September 26, 2026)
- Entry plan
- 512 MB RAM, 2 vCPU, 20 GB SSD (Source, checked September 26, 2026)
- Bandwidth allowance
- 1 TB (Source, checked September 26, 2026)
- Billing models
- Hourly, Per-second, Monthly, Reserved (Source, checked September 26, 2026)
- Locations
- 39 (Source, checked September 26, 2026)
- Free credits
- $100 in credits on signup, up to $100 more, up to $200 total over 6 months (Source, checked September 26, 2026)
- DDoS protection
- Yes (Source, checked September 26, 2026)
- SLA uptime
- 99.5% to 99.99% (Source, checked September 26, 2026)
- Compliance certifications
- PCI-DSS, HIPAA/HITECH, FedRAMP, GDPR, FIPS 140-3, NIST 800-171 (Source, checked September 26, 2026)
- Server types
- VPS, Bare-metal (Source, checked September 26, 2026)
- Operating systems
- Linux, Windows (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
- Phone, Chat, Help-centre, Community (Source, checked September 26, 2026)
- Pricing model
- Hourly billing
GPU cloud
- GPU models
- NVIDIA A10G, NVIDIA T4, NVIDIA H100 (Source, checked September 26, 2026)
- GPU hour from
- $0.526 (Source, checked September 26, 2026)
- Free credits
- $100 in credits on signup, up to $100 more, up to $200 total over 6 months (Source, checked September 26, 2026)
- Locations
- 39 (Source, checked September 26, 2026)
- Compliance certifications
- PCI-DSS, HIPAA/HITECH, FedRAMP, GDPR, FIPS 140-3, NIST 800-171 (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
- Phone, Chat, Help-centre, Community (Source, checked September 26, 2026)
- Pricing model
- Hourly billing
LLM APIs
- Input price from
- $0.040 (Source, checked September 26, 2026)
- Output price from
- $0.040 (Source, checked September 26, 2026)
- Models offered
- Amazon Nova, Amazon Titan, Anthropic Claude, Meta Llama, Mistral AI (Mistral Large 3, Ministral, Magistral, Voxtral, Devstral), Cohere (Command, Embed, Rerank), DeepSeek v3.2, Google Gemma 4 / Gemma 3, AI21 Labs, Luma AI, MiniMax M2, Moonshot AI Kimi K2, NVIDIA, OpenAI, Qwen, Stability AI, TwelveLabs, Writer, XAI, Z AI, Custom Model Import (Source, checked September 26, 2026)
- Largest context window
- 300,000 (Source, checked September 26, 2026)
- Free credits
- $100 in credits on signup, up to $100 more, up to $200 total over 6 months (Source, checked September 26, 2026)
- Compliance certifications
- PCI-DSS, HIPAA/HITECH, FedRAMP, GDPR, FIPS 140-3, NIST 800-171 (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
- Phone, Chat, Help-centre, Community (Source, checked September 26, 2026)
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)
- Compliance certifications
- PCI-DSS, HIPAA/HITECH, FedRAMP, GDPR, FIPS 140-3, NIST 800-171 (Source, checked September 26, 2026)
- SLA uptime
- 99.5% to 99.99% (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
- Phone, Chat, 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)
- Compliance certifications
- PCI-DSS, HIPAA/HITECH, FedRAMP, GDPR, FIPS 140-3, NIST 800-171 (Source, checked September 26, 2026)
- SLA uptime
- 99.5% to 99.99% (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
- Phone, Chat, Help-centre, Community (Source, checked September 26, 2026)
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Pros and cons
Pros
- Request pricing sits at $0.20, under Google Cloud at $0.40 and SberCloud at RUB 14.34.
- Each month includes 1,000,000 function requests at no charge, and data transfer out to the internet is included for the first 100, aggregated across services and regions except China and GovCloud.
- Billing models cover hourly, per-second, monthly and reserved terms on Linux and Windows, across 39 regions, with GPU instances from $0.53 on NVIDIA A10G, NVIDIA T4 and NVIDIA H100.
Cons
- There is no free Kubernetes control plane: the control plane is billed at $0.10.
- Function runs stop at 900, so longer jobs need a different service.
- Object storage carries a minimum storage period of 30 before data can be removed.
Who it suits
- Teams that want functions, object storage, Kubernetes, GPUs and model APIs in one account
- Developers testing on signup credits and a monthly allowance of 1,000,000 requests
Who should look elsewhere
- Not Google Cloud if the per request price decides it: Google Cloud charges $0.40.
- Not DeepInfra if the lowest starting request price matters most: DeepInfra runs $0.019 to $10.
- Not a plain function tier if you cannot pay a fixed control plane fee on Kubernetes, billed at $0.10.
How Amazon Web Services compares
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Where Amazon Web Services is available
Countries from its affiliate programme (Source)
Frequently asked questions
How much does it cost to run a function?+
Function requests bill at $0.20, plus $0.000000017 per GB-second of compute time. Every account also gets 1,000,000 requests each month at no charge, so a small API can run a full month without a bill.
Is the Kubernetes control plane free?+
It is not. The control plane is billed at $0.10 on top of the worker nodes you run, so a cluster carries a fixed fee before node pricing applies. New accounts also receive signup credits, which can offset that charge while you size a cluster.
What does data transfer out of AWS cost?+
Data transfer out to the internet is included for the first 100 each month, aggregated across AWS services and regions, except China and GovCloud. After that, transfer is metered per gigabyte, which is the line that surprises storage-heavy projects most.
Which models can I call, and how large is the context window?+
Models span Amazon Nova, Anthropic Claude, Meta Llama, OpenAI, xAI and Mistral AI families, with input pricing from $0.04 and output from $0.04. The largest context window listed is 300,000, which suits long document work.
Where can I run workloads, and how is billing set up?+
The footprint covers 39 regions, well above the 4 median across brands here. Billing models include hourly, per-second, monthly and reserved terms, and images run on Linux or Windows, so you can match commitment to the job.
What is the cheapest server plan?+
The entry plan is priced at $3.50 and includes 512 MB RAM, 2 vCPU, 20 GB SSD with 1 TB of transfer. That sits under the €5.83 median for entry pricing on this site, and bare metal sits alongside the VPS range.
What do GPU instances cost?+
GPU instances cover NVIDIA A10G, NVIDIA T4 and NVIDIA H100, and on-demand pricing starts at $0.53, close to the €0.63 median across brands on this site. Billing on this range is hourly, so a short test run costs less than a month of capacity.
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/bedrock/pricing checked September 26, 2026
Backs: Input price from, Models offered, Output price from
“Gemma 4 E2B $0.04 (Price per 1M input tokens, Regions: US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio) and US West (Oregon))”
- aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/introducing-amazon-nova-frontier... checked September 26, 2026
Backs: Largest context window
“Amazon Nova Pro is capable of processing up to 300K input tokens”
- aws.amazon.com/compliance checked September 26, 2026
Backs: Compliance certifications
“AWS supports 143 security standards and compliance certifications, including PCI-DSS, HIPAA/HITECH, FedRAMP, GDPR, FIPS 140-3, and NIST 800-171”
- aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/g5 checked September 26, 2026
Backs: GPU models
- aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing checked September 26, 2026
Backs: Billing models, Operating systems, Server types
“On-Demand Instances offer pay-as-you-go compute capacity by the hour or second. No upfront payment or long-term commitment are required.”
- aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/on-demand checked September 26, 2026
Backs: GPU hour from, Pricing model
- aws.amazon.com/ec2/sla checked September 26, 2026
Backs: SLA uptime
“an Instance-Level Uptime Percentage of at least 99.5% ... a Monthly Uptime Percentage of at least 99.99%”
- 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/free checked September 26, 2026
Backs: Free credits
“When you create a new AWS Free Tier account, you get $100 in credits immediately. As you explore key services, you can earn up to $100 more.”
- 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/lightsail/pricing checked September 26, 2026
Backs: Bandwidth allowance, Entry plan, Entry price
“1 TB Transfer”
- aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/plans/business checked September 26, 2026
Backs: Support channels
“24/7 access Cloud Support Engineers via phone, chat, and web”
- 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”
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Compiled from 21 source pages, checked September 26, 2026. We did not open an account.
Amazon Web Services
A single account covering serverless, storage, Kubernetes, GPUs and model APIs at competitive request pricing.