1 vCPU, 8 GiB instances: AWS vs Azure
16 current instance types have 1 vCPUs and 8 GiB of memory: 12 on AWS EC2 and 4 on Azure. The cheapest 1 vCPU, 8 GiB option is r6g.medium on AWS at $0.0504 per hour on demand (US East (N. Virginia)). The cheapest on Azure is Standard_F1ams_v7 at $0.0895, so AWS is 44% cheaper at this size.
Every 1 vCPU, 8 GiB option, cheapest first
| Cloud | Type | vCPUs | Memory (GiB) | On-demand /hr | 1-yr reserved /hr | Spot /hr |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AWS | r6g.medium | 1 | 8 | $0.0504 | $0.0318 | $0.0096 |
| AWS | r7g.medium | 1 | 8 | $0.0536 | $0.0354 | $0.0175 |
| AWS | r6gd.medium | 1 | 8 | $0.0576 | $0.0363 | $0.0126 |
| AWS | r8g.medium | 1 | 8 | $0.0589 | $0.039 | $0.0125 |
| AWS | r9g.medium | 1 | 8 | $0.0642 | – | $0.0142 |
| AWS | r7gd.medium | 1 | 8 | $0.068 | $0.0428 | $0.0134 |
| AWS | r8gd.medium | 1 | 8 | $0.0735 | – | $0.0187 |
| AWS | r7a.medium | 1 | 8 | $0.0761 | $0.0503 | $0.0171 |
| AWS | r8a.medium | 1 | 8 | $0.0799 | – | $0.0162 |
| AWS | r9gd.medium | 1 | 8 | $0.0801 | – | $0.0132 |
| Azure | Standard_F1ams_v7 | 1 | 8 | $0.0895 | $0.0555 | $0.0174 |
| AWS | r8gb.medium | 1 | 8 | $0.0911 | – | $0.0122 |
| AWS | r8gn.medium | 1 | 8 | $0.0911 | – | $0.0165 |
| Azure | Standard_DC1s_v3 | 1 | 8 | $0.096 | – | $0.0211 |
| Azure | Standard_F1amds_v7 | 1 | 8 | $0.109 | $0.0676 | $0.0211 |
| Azure | Standard_DC1ds_v3 | 1 | 8 | $0.113 | – | $0.0249 |
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.