AW
AWS
Amazon Web Services — EC2, EBS and RDS pricing.
The default choice for teams that need every possible building block in one place — compute, storage, managed databases, and dozens of adjacent services that plug into each other. That breadth is also why the bill reads like a foreign language.
Best for
Teams that will eventually need services beyond a web app and a database — queues, ML, fine-grained IAM.
How it bills
On-demand hourly per instance type, plus separate meters for storage and data transfer.
Strengths
- +Largest service catalog of any provider
- +Fine-grained regional and instance choice
- +Official free pricing API
Trade-offs
- −Steepest learning curve
- −Easy to under-provision and get surprised by egress charges