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, handling the core compute tasks for running applications and services. It acts as the foundational infrastructure for deploying workloads, managing instances, and scaling…

CATEGORY Compute

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FREE TIER Available

TIER free

Free trial available

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Azure Virtual Machines delivers on-demand compute capacity for both Linux and Windows workloads. You spin up instances to handle scalable processing tasks, paying strictly for the hours you run them. It’s standard infras…

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 $0.1250/hour

On-Demand $1.73/hour

On-Demand $0.2180/hour

On-Demand $0.1480/hour