Amazon EC2 vs Virtual Machines

Head-to-head comparison · Compute

At a glance

Virtual Machines has the lower starting price — $0.004 per hour vs $0.0052 per hour.
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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Azure Virtual Machines provide scalable, on-demand computing resources for Linux and Windows environments. This service allows DevOps engineers to provision virtual infrastructure tailored to specific application needs w…

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

VIRTUAL MACHINES

Free Tier Free/month

On-Demand $0.0104/hour

On-Demand $0.0416/hour

On-Demand $0.1660/hour

On-Demand $0.1140/hour

On-Demand $1.73/hour

On-Demand $0.2180/hour

On-Demand $0.1480/hour