1 vCPU, 4 GiB instances: AWS vs Azure
16 current instance types have 1 vCPUs and 4 GiB of memory: 13 on AWS EC2 and 3 on Azure. The cheapest 1 vCPU, 4 GiB option is m6g.medium on AWS at $0.0385 per hour on demand (US East (N. Virginia)). The cheapest on Azure is Standard_F1as_v7 at $0.0683, so AWS is 44% cheaper at this size.
Every 1 vCPU, 4 GiB option, cheapest first
| Cloud | Type | vCPUs | Memory (GiB) | On-demand /hr | 1-yr reserved /hr | Spot /hr |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AWS | m6g.medium | 1 | 4 | $0.0385 | $0.0241 | $0.0128 |
| AWS | m7g.medium | 1 | 4 | $0.0408 | $0.027 | $0.0147 |
| AWS | m8g.medium | 1 | 4 | $0.0449 | $0.0297 | $0.0161 |
| AWS | m6gd.medium | 1 | 4 | $0.0452 | $0.0285 | $0.0135 |
| AWS | m9g.medium | 1 | 4 | $0.0489 | – | $0.0105 |
| AWS | m7gd.medium | 1 | 4 | $0.0534 | $0.0336 | $0.05 |
| AWS | m8gd.medium | 1 | 4 | $0.0577 | – | $0.014 |
| AWS | m7a.medium | 1 | 4 | $0.058 | $0.0383 | $0.0146 |
| AWS | m8a.medium | 1 | 4 | $0.0609 | – | $0.0129 |
| AWS | m9gd.medium | 1 | 4 | $0.0629 | – | $0.0127 |
| Azure | Standard_F1as_v7 | 1 | 4 | $0.0683 | $0.0424 | $0.0133 |
| AWS | m8gb.medium | 1 | 4 | $0.0728 | – | $0.0169 |
| AWS | m8gn.medium | 1 | 4 | $0.0728 | – | $0.0177 |
| Azure | Standard_F1ads_v7 | 1 | 4 | $0.0858 | $0.0532 | $0.0166 |
| Azure | Standard_DC1s_v2 | 1 | 4 | $0.096 | – | $0.0259 |
| AWS | m8azn.medium | 1 | 4 | $0.1032 | – | $0.023 |
Other sizes
On-demand Linux prices in USD per hour, in each cloud's home region: US East (N. Virginia) for AWS, East US for Azure. Previous-generation types are left out.