AWS Compute Pricing
Explore AWS compute services from raw virtual machine instances and architectural families to containerized environments and serverless architectures across every global region.
Core Compute Resources
All EC2 Instances
Search and filter 1,242+ instance types with live multi-attribute filtering by vCPU, memory, hourly cost, CPU architecture, and GPU presence.
- Linux & Windows on-demand pricing across all regions
- x86_64 and arm64 Graviton architecture filters
- Live unit economics ($/vCPU-hr, $/GiB-hr)
EC2 Instance Families
Browse 190 families organized into 6 workload-optimized categories with single-row tab navigation and generational comparison.
- 6 core architectural workload categories
- Detailed family descriptions and generation specs
- GPU, storage, and networking capability badges
Side-by-Side Comparison
Line up up to 4 instance types to evaluate differences in hardware specs, network bandwidth, memory-to-vCPU ratios, and regional costs.
- Direct spec delta and price difference analysis
- Normalized memory-per-core and cost efficiency
- Shareable comparison links
Instance Categories Quick Jump
View all categories →Balanced compute, memory, and networking for web servers, microservices, and general workloads.
High clock-speed processors for CPU-bound applications, batch processing, and media transcoding.
High RAM-to-vCPU ratios for in-memory databases, Redis caches, and real-time big data processing.
Low latency, high NVMe I/O throughput for data warehousing, Elasticsearch, and high-frequency OLTP.
NVIDIA GPUs, AWS Trainium, and Inferentia hardware acceleration for AI/ML and 3D rendering.
Clusters built for computational fluid dynamics, weather forecasting, and complex simulations.
Containers & Serverless
Expanding CloudCostDB compute models beyond virtual machines.
Amazon EKS & Kubernetes
Managed Kubernetes cluster control plane fees ($0.10/hr), managed node group cost breakdown, and Karpenter intelligent node auto-scaling analysis.
Amazon ECS & AWS Fargate
Serverless container execution pricing modeled per vCPU-hour and GB-memory-hour across Linux, Windows, and ARM64 Graviton platforms.
AWS Lambda
Event-driven execution pricing calculated per million invocations and duration GB-seconds, comparing x86 and Graviton cost efficiencies.
Specialized & Bare Metal Compute
EC2 Dedicated Hosts, bare metal .metal instance configurations, and AWS Outposts hybrid infrastructure pricing references.