AWS EC2
Amazon's virtual machines. The market default, priced per second with every extra (disk, public IPv4, egress) metered separately.
EC2 is convenient when your apps rely on other AWS services. Our listed instance costs include a public IPv4, but EBS disks cost extra. Internet egress starts at $0.09/GB after 100 GB free, with lower rates at higher volumes. Savings Plans can substantially reduce compute costs if you commit for one to three years; the calculator uses on-demand prices.
- Headquarters
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Parent jurisdiction
- 🇺🇸 United States (parent: Amazon)
- EU self-serve plan
- Available; check eligible plans and regions
- GDPR DPA
- Yes
- Provider type
- Hyperscaler & enterprise. The broadest catalog of managed services, many regions, enterprise support contracts and compliance programs.
- Billing
- payg
- Free tier
- New accounts (since July 2025) get up to $200 in credits for 6 months, usable on small t3/t4g/flex instances.
- Open source
- No
- Website
- aws.amazon.com
- Source last checked
- 2026-10-06
- Pricing evidence
- Published rates
Pricing
Calculated from the listed vendor rates; exclusions still apply. How to read these estimates.
| Plan | vCPUs / instance | RAM / instance (GB) | Instance / month | Internet egress / TB |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| m7i.large | 2 | 8 | $77.23 | $90, tiered |
| m7i.xlarge | 4 | 16 | $150.82 | $90, tiered |
| m7i.2xlarge | 8 | 32 | $297.99 | $90, tiered |
| m7i.4xlarge | 16 | 64 | $592.32 | $90, tiered |
| m7i.8xlarge | 32 | 128 | $1,180.99 | $90, tiered |
| m7i.16xlarge | 64 | 256 | $2,358.34 | $90, tiered |
Allowances, plan limits & calculation details
Rates are shown at their recorded precision. A zero means no charge in this calculation; the vendor may charge for things we leave out. See the notes for usage assumptions and currency conversions.
m7i.large
- vCPUs / instance
- 2
- RAM / instance (GB)
- 8
- Instance / month
- $77.23
- Included egress / instance (TB)
- 0
- Free egress / account (TB)
- 0.1
- Internet egress / TB past the last tier
- $50
- Egress volume tiers
- $90/TB through 10 TB; $85/TB through 50 TB; $70/TB through 150 TB
m7i.xlarge
- vCPUs / instance
- 4
- RAM / instance (GB)
- 16
- Instance / month
- $150.82
- Included egress / instance (TB)
- 0
- Free egress / account (TB)
- 0.1
- Internet egress / TB past the last tier
- $50
- Egress volume tiers
- $90/TB through 10 TB; $85/TB through 50 TB; $70/TB through 150 TB
m7i.2xlarge
- vCPUs / instance
- 8
- RAM / instance (GB)
- 32
- Instance / month
- $297.99
- Included egress / instance (TB)
- 0
- Free egress / account (TB)
- 0.1
- Internet egress / TB past the last tier
- $50
- Egress volume tiers
- $90/TB through 10 TB; $85/TB through 50 TB; $70/TB through 150 TB
m7i.4xlarge
- vCPUs / instance
- 16
- RAM / instance (GB)
- 64
- Instance / month
- $592.32
- Included egress / instance (TB)
- 0
- Free egress / account (TB)
- 0.1
- Internet egress / TB past the last tier
- $50
- Egress volume tiers
- $90/TB through 10 TB; $85/TB through 50 TB; $70/TB through 150 TB
m7i.8xlarge
- vCPUs / instance
- 32
- RAM / instance (GB)
- 128
- Instance / month
- $1,180.99
- Included egress / instance (TB)
- 0
- Free egress / account (TB)
- 0.1
- Internet egress / TB past the last tier
- $50
- Egress volume tiers
- $90/TB through 10 TB; $85/TB through 50 TB; $70/TB through 150 TB
m7i.16xlarge
- vCPUs / instance
- 64
- RAM / instance (GB)
- 256
- Instance / month
- $2,358.34
- Included egress / instance (TB)
- 0
- Free egress / account (TB)
- 0.1
- Internet egress / TB past the last tier
- $50
- Egress volume tiers
- $90/TB through 10 TB; $85/TB through 50 TB; $70/TB through 150 TB
us-east-1 (N. Virginia), Linux on-demand, m7i general purpose (Intel, 4 GB per vCPU; a vCPU is a hyperthread), 730 hours. Each instance price includes the public IPv4 address at $0.005/hour ($3.65/month). EBS disk is extra (gp3 $0.08/GB-month). Newer m8i costs ~5% more; Graviton m8g (Arm, full cores) ~11% less; burstable t4g starts at $3.07/month. Egress: 100 GB/month free per account, then $0.09/GB for the first 10 TB, $0.085 to 50 TB, $0.07 to 150 TB, $0.05 above. Savings Plans cut compute up to 66–72% for 1–3 year commitments. Prices from the AWS price-list API (Sept 2026).
Managed alternatives
At 32 vCPUs, 128 GB RAM, 10 TB egress to internet / month. Adjust usage and requirements.
AWS EC2: $24,864/yr estimated.
- Contabo Cloud VPS (shared vCPU): $995/yr estimated · $23,869/yr bill differencePublished rates
- Hetzner Cloud CX (shared vCPU): $1,708/yr estimated · $23,156/yr bill differencePublished rates
- OVHcloud bare metal: $1,747/yr estimated · $23,117/yr bill differencePublished rates
- Hetzner dedicated servers (AX): $2,856/yr estimated · $22,008/yr bill differencePublished rates
- Contabo Cloud VDS: $3,172/yr estimated · $21,692/yr bill differencePublished rates
No cheaper managed estimate matches your filters. Adjust your usage or compare with your actual contract bill.
The price difference leaves out migration costs, operating costs and any features you’d need to replace.
Self-hosted options
Operating cost is not estimated. These options are not counted as savings against managed services.
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