Provider guides
What each provider is actually good for, in plain terms — plug your own numbers into the calculator to see how they compare for your app specifically.
Amazon Web Services — EC2, EBS and RDS pricing.
Compute Engine, Persistent Disk and Cloud SQL pricing.
Azure Virtual Machines, Managed Disks and Azure Database for MySQL.
Droplets, Volumes and Managed Databases.
Serverless functions, bandwidth and Postgres for frontend-first teams.
Usage-based compute and databases for indie projects.
ECS, ESSD cloud disk and RDS pricing, converted from RMB.
Web Services, disks and managed Postgres, priced as flat monthly tiers.
Per-second Machines billing with real auto-stop savings when idle.
Functions, bandwidth and DB add-on for frontend-first teams.
Workers, R2 storage and D1 — billed on CPU time, with zero egress fees.
European budget VPS with very cheap compute and generous included traffic.
Akamai's shared-CPU VPS line with managed MySQL.
CVM, cloud disk and CDB pricing, converted from RMB.
ECS, EVS and RDS pricing, converted from RMB.