24 vCPU, 768 GiB instances: AWS vs Azure
8 current instance types have 24 vCPUs and 768 GiB of memory: 3 on AWS EC2 and 5 on Azure. The cheapest 24 vCPU, 768 GiB option is x2iezn.6xlarge on AWS at $5.004 per hour on demand (US East (N. Virginia)). The cheapest on Azure is Standard_E96-24as_v7 at $5.722, so AWS is 13% cheaper at this size.
Every 24 vCPU, 768 GiB option, cheapest first
| Cloud | Type | vCPUs | Memory (GiB) | On-demand /hr | 1-yr reserved /hr | Spot /hr |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AWS | x2iezn.6xlarge | 24 | 768 | $5.004 | $3.081 | $1.407 |
| Azure | Standard_E96-24as_v7 | 24 | 768 | $5.722 | $3.376 | $1.068 |
| Azure | Standard_E96-24s_v6 | 24 | 768 | $6.35 | $3.937 | $1.317 |
| Azure | Standard_E96-24ads_v7 | 24 | 768 | $6.97 | $4.112 | $1.301 |
| Azure | Standard_HB176-24rs_v4 | 24 | 768 | $7.20 | $5.40 | $1.463 |
| Azure | Standard_E96-24ds_v6 | 24 | 768 | $7.849 | $4.866 | $1.639 |
| AWS | hpc7a.12xlarge | 24 | 768 | $9.079 | $7.15 | – |
| AWS | x8aedz.6xlarge | 24 | 768 | $10.01 | – | $1.656 |
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.