So I wanted to really find out how cheap the cloud was- but I got confused by the 23 kinds of instances than Amazon has http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/ and 15 kinds of instances at https://developers.google.com/compute/pricing.
or whether there is any price collusion between them 😉
Now Amazon has spot pricing so I can bid for prices as well (http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/purchasing-options/spot-instances/ ) and upto 60% off for reserved instances (http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/purchasing-options/reserved-instances/) but charges $2 for dedicated instances (which are not dedicated but pay as you go)
- $2 per hour – An additional fee is charged once per hour in which at least one Dedicated Instance of any type is running in a Region.
Google has sustained discounts ( will not offer Windows on the cloud though!)
The table below describes the discount at each usage level. These discounts apply for all instance types.
| Usage Level (% of month) | % at which incremental is charged | Example incremental rate (USD/per hour) for an n1-standard-1 instance |
|---|---|---|
| 0%-25% | 100% of base rate | $0.07 |
| 25%-50% | 80% of base rate | $0.056 |
| 50%-75% | 60% of base rate | $0.042 |
| 75%-100% | 40% of base rate | $0.028 |
Anyways- I tried to create this simple table to help me with it- after all hard disks are cheap- it is memory I want on the cloud !
Or maybe I am wrong and the cloud is not so cheap- or its just too complicated for someone to build a pricing calculator that can take in prices from all providers (Amazon, Azure, Google Compute) and show us the money!
| vCPU | RAM(GiB) | $ per Hour | Type -Linux Usage | Provider | Notes | |
| t2.micro | 1 | 1 | $0.01 | General Purpose – Current Generation | Amazon (North Virginia) | Amazon also has spot instances |
| t2.small | 1 | 2 | $0.03 | General Purpose – Current Generation | Amazon (North Virginia) | that can lower prices |
| t2.medium | 2 | 4 | $0.05 | General Purpose – Current Generation | Amazon (North Virginia) | |
| m3.medium | 1 | 3.75 | $0.07 | General Purpose – Current Generation | Amazon (North Virginia) | |
| m3.large | 2 | 7.5 | $0.14 | General Purpose – Current Generation | Amazon (North Virginia) | |
| m3.xlarge | 4 | 15 | $0.28 | General Purpose – Current Generation | Amazon (North Virginia) | |
| m3.2xlarge | 8 | 30 | $0.56 | General Purpose – Current Generation | Amazon (North Virginia) | |
| c3.large | 2 | 3.75 | $0.11 | Compute Optimized – Current Generation | Amazon (North Virginia) | |
| c3.xlarge | 4 | 7.5 | $0.21 | Compute Optimized – Current Generation | Amazon (North Virginia) | |
| c3.2xlarge | 8 | 15 | $0.42 | Compute Optimized – Current Generation | Amazon (North Virginia) | |
| c3.4xlarge | 16 | 30 | $0.84 | Compute Optimized – Current Generation | Amazon (North Virginia) | |
| c3.8xlarge | 32 | 60 | $1.68 | Compute Optimized – Current Generation | Amazon (North Virginia) | |
| g2.2xlarge | 8 | 15 | $0.65 | GPU Instances – Current Generation | Amazon (North Virginia) | |
| r3.large | 2 | 15 | $0.18 | Memory Optimized – Current Generation | Amazon (North Virginia) | |
| r3.xlarge | 4 | 30.5 | $0.35 | Memory Optimized – Current Generation | Amazon (North Virginia) | |
| r3.2xlarge | 8 | 61 | $0.70 | Memory Optimized – Current Generation | Amazon (North Virginia) | |
| r3.4xlarge | 16 | 122 | $1.40 | Memory Optimized – Current Generation | Amazon (North Virginia) | |
| r3.8xlarge | 32 | 244 | $2.80 | Memory Optimized – Current Generation | Amazon (North Virginia) | |
| i2.xlarge | 4 | 30.5 | $0.85 | Storage Optimized – Current Generation | Amazon (North Virginia) | |
| i2.2xlarge | 8 | 61 | $1.71 | Storage Optimized – Current Generation | Amazon (North Virginia) | |
| i2.4xlarge | 16 | 122 | $3.41 | Storage Optimized – Current Generation | Amazon (North Virginia) | |
| i2.8xlarge | 32 | 244 | $6.82 | Storage Optimized – Current Generation | Amazon (North Virginia) | |
| hs1.8xlarge | 16 | 117 | $4.60 | Storage Optimized – Current Generation | Amazon (North Virginia) | |
| n1-standard-1 | 1 | 3.75 | $0.07 | Standard | Google -US | Google charges per minute |
| n1-standard-2 | 2 | 7.5 | $0.14 | Standard | Google -US | of usage (subject to minimum of 10 minutes) |
| n1-standard-4 | 4 | 15 | $0.28 | Standard | Google -US | |
| n1-standard-8 | 8 | 30 | $0.56 | Standard | Google -US | |
| n1-standard-16 | 16 | 60 | $1.12 | Standard | Google -US | |
| n1-highmem-2 | 2 | 13 | $0.16 | High Memory | Google -US | |
| n1-highmem-4 | 4 | 26 | $0.33 | High Memory | Google -US | |
| n1-highmem-8 | 8 | 52 | $0.66 | High Memory | Google -US | |
| n1-highmem-16 | 16 | 104 | $1.31 | High Memory | Google -US | |
| n1-highcpu-2 | 2 | 1.8 | $0.09 | High CPU | Google -US | |
| n1-highcpu-4 | 4 | 3.6 | $0.18 | High CPU | Google -US | |
| n1-highcpu-8 | 8 | 7.2 | $0.35 | High CPU | Google -US | |
| n1-highcpu-16 | 16 | 14.4 | $0.70 | High CPU | Google -US | |
| f1-micro | 1 | 0.6 | $0.01 | Shared Core | Google -US | |
| g1-small | 1 | 1.7 | $0.04 | Shared Core | Google -US |
DECISION STATS 