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Amazon EC2 Pricing Overview

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Amazon EC2 has not provided pricing information for this product or service. This is common practice for software sellers and service providers. The pricing insights provided here are based on user reviews and are intended to give you an indication of value. Alternatively, contact Amazon EC2 to obtain current pricing.

Pricing Insights

Averages based on real user reviews.

Time to Implement

2 months

Return on Investment

17 months

Average Discount

14%

Perceived Cost

$$$$$

Amazon EC2 Alternatives Pricing

The following is a quick overview of editions offered by other Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Providers

Google Compute Engine
Beyond Free Tier and Free Trial
Pay As You GoPer Month
Pricing for Compute Engine is based on per-second usage of the machine types, persistent disks, and other resources that you select for your virtual machines.
  • Compute Engine charges for usage based on the following price sheet: https://cloud.google.com/compute/all-pricing
DigitalOcean
Droplets
Starting at $4.00
Simple, affordable, fast virtual machines
  • Deploys in seconds
  • Scales up on demand
  • Run any workload from mission critical apps to low traffic sites
Vultr
Cloud Compute
Starting at $2.50Per Month
Easy-to-use, affordable VMs for many common workloads.
  • Deploy around the globe in seconds
  • On-demand scaling
  • Perfect for many personal and business apps

Various alternatives pricing & plans

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Pricing information for the above various Amazon EC2 alternatives is supplied by the respective software provider or retrieved from publicly accessible pricing materials. Final cost negotiations to purchase any of these products must be conducted with the seller.

Amazon EC2 Pricing Reviews

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Avnish A.
AA
Project Lead
Information Technology and Services
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"The Backbone of Modern Cloud Infrastructure"
What do you like best about Amazon EC2?

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore : A set of tools to build, deploy, and securely operate AI agents at scale.

About Amazon : Amazon S3 Vectors (preview), Native vector support in object storage. Helpful for semantic search / retrieval workflows, etc. Works with Bedrock Knowledge Bases and OpenSearch.

Nova customization & HyperPod support: More control over AWS’s Nova models (in SageMaker etc.), with better SDK for security and flexibility.

Agentic AI tools + Marketplace category

AWS launched a category in its Marketplace for AI agents and tools (so you can find, buy, deploy them more easily).

New AWS Region: Expanding geographic footprint helps in lowering latency, meeting local data residency/regulatory needs, etc.

US Press Center Better performance & cost with chips & infra : Usage of new GPU types (NVIDIA Blackwell, etc.), improvements in cooling (liquid cooling IRHX), new server types, etc. All aiming at more efficient AI training & inference. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon EC2?

Pricing Transparency – Costs can be tricky to estimate; a simpler, more predictable pricing model would help.

Learning Curve – The huge number of services and options can overwhelm new users; more guided workflows and simplified defaults would be great.

Console UI – While functional, the AWS Management Console can feel cluttered; a cleaner, more intuitive interface would improve usability.

Support Response Times – Premium support is excellent, but faster response at lower tiers would benefit small teams.

Service Integration Consistency – Sometimes features roll out unevenly across regions or services, which slows adoption. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mozzam S.
MS
Senior Brand Manager
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Poor Value, Frustrating Experience with EC2"
What do you like best about Amazon EC2?

Bad software Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon EC2?

I don't like that they have overcharged me. It was a bad choice of mine. The features are not valuable, just a dashboard full of unusable features. They seem to make features just to make money, not to benefit users. They hang up the calls and don't show interest in improving the service. They seem to charge big companies instead of catering to smaller ones. The setup was full of difficulties. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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