Amazon EC2 vs Elastic Compute Service (ECS)

Head-to-head comparison · Compute

At a glance

Only Amazon EC2 offers a free tier.

Amazon EC2 provides virtual servers in the cloud, serving as a core compute service for AWS. It allows users to launch and manage virtual machines to run applications or workloads. This service is designed for developers…

CATEGORY Compute

PRICING See pricing page

FREE TIER Available

TIER free

Free trial available

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Alibaba Cloud’s Elastic Compute Service provides virtual servers for hosting websites and scaling enterprise workloads globally. It operates on a pay-as-you-go pricing model, allowing users to pay only for the resources …

CATEGORY Compute

PRICING Pay-as-you-go

FREE TIER None

TIER pay-as-you-go

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Pricing Tiers

AMAZON EC2

On-Demand $3.49/hour

On-Demand $4.10/hour

On-Demand $2.33/hour

On-Demand $0.0490/hour

On-Demand $4.17/hour

On-Demand $0.3830/hour

On-Demand $8.35/hour

On-Demand $0.7638/hour

ELASTIC COMPUTE SERVICE (ECS)

No pricing data available