What's good about...

Amazon Web Services logo Amazon Web Services

  • Extensive range of managed services, from serverless to databases to queues to video streaming
  • Generous free tier and savings plan available to lock-in discounts
  • 30+ datacenter locations around the world

Amazon Web Services logo Backblaze

  • A fraction of the cost of AWS S3
  • Easy migration, S3-compatible API
  • Several data centers in North America and Europe

Price comparison

How do Amazon Web Services's prices compare against Backblaze?

Example configuration Amazon Web Services Backblaze
VM Small $7.49 / mo 2 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (t3.micro) --
VM Medium $119.80 / mo 4 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (t3.xlarge) --
VM Large $248.20 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (c5.2xlarge) --
Block Storage $8.00 / mo 100 GB --
Object Storage $24.63 / mo 1 TB $6.00 / mo 1 TB
Load Balancer $22.57 / mo Network Load Balancer --
Managed PostgreSQL $57.59 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GiB RAM, 50 GB storage (db.t3.medium) --
Managed Redis®* $24.82 / mo 1 vCPU, 1.55 GiB RAM (cache.t2.small) --
Serverless 25M Executions $36.26 / mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration --
Free egress allowance 100 GB / mo 3x the amount of data stored
1 TB of egress beyond allowance $90.00 $0.09 / GB (North America) $10.00 $0.01 / GB

AWS offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name GPUs VRAM vCPUs RAM Price/h
g5g.xlarge 1x T4G 16GB 4 16GB $0.42
g4dn.xlarge 1x T4G 16GB 4 16GB $0.53 Launch
g5g.2xlarge 1x T4G 16GB 8 16GB $0.56
g3s.xlarge 1x M60 8GB 4 30GB $0.75
g4dn.2xlarge 1x T4G 16GB 8 32GB $0.75
g5g.4xlarge 1x T4G 16GB 16 16GB $0.83
p2.xlarge 1x K80 12GB 4 61GB $0.90
g5.xlarge 1x A10G 24GB 4 16GB $1.01
g3.4xlarge 1x M60 8GB 16 122GB $1.14
g4dn.4xlarge 1x T4G 16GB 16 64GB $1.20
g5.2xlarge 1x A10G 24GB 8 32GB $1.21
g5g.8xlarge 1x T4G 16GB 32 16GB $1.37
g5.4xlarge 1x A10G 24GB 16 64GB $1.63 Launch
g4dn.8xlarge 1x T4G 16GB 32 128GB $2.18
g3.8xlarge 2x M60 16GB 32 244GB $2.28
g5.8xlarge 1x A10G 24GB 32 128GB $2.45
g5g.16xlarge 2x T4G 32GB 64 32GB $2.74
p3.2xlarge 1x V100 16GB 8 61GB $3.06 Launch
g4dn.12xlarge 4x T4G 64GB 48 192GB $3.92 Launch
g5.12xlarge 4x A10G 96GB 48 192GB $4.10
g4dn.16xlarge 1x T4G 16GB 64 256GB $4.35
g3.16xlarge 4x M60 32GB 64 488GB $4.56
g5.12xlarge 4x A10G 384GB 48 192GB $5.68 Launch
p2.8xlarge 8x K80 96GB 32 488GB $7.20
g4dn.metal 8x T4G 128GB 96 384GB $7.83 Launch
g5.24xlarge 4x A10G 96GB 96 384GB $8.14
p3.8xlarge 4x V100 64GB 32 244GB $12.24 Launch
p2.16xlarge 16x K80 192GB 64 732GB $14.40
g5.48xlarge 8x A10G 192GB 192 768GB $16.29 Launch
p3.16xlarge 8x V100 128GB 64 488GB $24.48 Launch
p4d.24xlarge 8x A100 320GB 96 1152GB $32.77 Launch
p5.48xlarge 8x H100 640GB 192 2048GB $98.32

Note: Our pricing examples are based on several assumptions. Your actual costs may differ. Always check the cloud provider's website for the most up-to-date pricing.

Which services do they offer?

Here are some of the managed services that Amazon Web Services and Backblaze offer:

Service Amazon Web Services Backblaze
Block Storage --
Content Delivery Network (CDN) --
Container Registry --
GPU-powered Servers --
Load Balancer --
Managed Containers --
Managed Kubernetes --
Managed MySQL --
Managed PostgreSQL --
Managed Redis®* --
Object Storage
Serverless Cron Jobs --
Serverless Functions --
Static Sites --
Virtual Private Server (VPS) --

Company details

Amazon Web Services
Website aws.amazon.com
Headquarters United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded 2006
Data Center Locations 31
Example Customers Vanguard, Disney, Samsung, Zocdoc, GoPro
Backblaze
Website www.backblaze.com
Headquarters United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded 2007
Data Center Locations 4
Example Customers Kanopy, Steamlabs, Canal+, Fortune

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Our data for Amazon Web Services was last updated on Sept. 28, 2024, and for Backblaze on July 24, 2024.