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AWS vs Cirrascale

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What's good about...

Amazon Web Services logo AWS

  • 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

Cirrascale logo Cirrascale

  • Multiple GPU types (NVIDIA, AMD, Cerebras, Qualcomm, SambaNova)
  • Reservation pricing with 1 to 12-month terms
  • High-speed networking (up to 3200Gb per server)
  • Offers object storage and managed inference

Price comparison

How do AWS's prices compare against Cirrascale?

VM Small

Closest config to 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM.
Amazon Web Services AWS
$7.49 / mo 2 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (t3.micro)
Cirrascale Cirrascale
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VM Medium

Closest config to 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM.
Amazon Web Services AWS
$119.80 / mo 4 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (t3.xlarge)
Cirrascale Cirrascale
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VM Large

Closest config to 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (dedicated preferred).
Amazon Web Services AWS
$248.20 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (c5.2xlarge)
Cirrascale Cirrascale
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Block Storage

Closest config to 100+ GB SSD, 3,000+ IOPS, 100+ MB/s throughput, no snapshots.
Amazon Web Services AWS
$8.00 / mo 100 GB
Cirrascale Cirrascale
$20.00 / mo 100 GB (NVMe storage)

Object Storage

Closest config to 1 TB stored, 100 GB in / 250 GB out, 1M GET, 100k PUT/POST.
Amazon Web Services AWS
$24.63 / mo 1 TB
Cirrascale Cirrascale
$40.00 / mo 1 TB, zero bandwidth fees

Load Balancer

Closest config to TCP, 1 node (1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM), 200+ Mbps, 1,000 conn/sec, 1 TB processed/mo.
Amazon Web Services AWS
$22.57 / mo Network Load Balancer
Cirrascale Cirrascale
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Managed PostgreSQL

Closest config to 1 node, 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50+ GB storage, 10 GB read / 5 GB write per month.
Amazon Web Services AWS
$57.59 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GiB RAM, 50 GB storage (db.t3.medium)
Cirrascale Cirrascale
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Managed Redis®*

Closest config to 1 node, 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM, 10 req/s, 1 KB avg request size.
Amazon Web Services AWS
$24.82 / mo 1 vCPU, 1.55 GiB RAM (cache.t2.small)
Cirrascale Cirrascale
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Serverless 25M Executions

Closest config to 25M invocations, 150ms execution time, 512 MB memory.
Amazon Web Services AWS
$36.26 / mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration
Cirrascale Cirrascale
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Free egress allowance

Amazon Web Services AWS
100 GB / mo
Cirrascale Cirrascale
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1 TB of egress beyond allowance

Amazon Web Services AWS
$90.00 $0.09 / GB (North America)
Cirrascale Cirrascale
Free and unlimited

GPU Fleet Overview

Starting Price

Amazon Web Services AWS
$0.19/hr
Cirrascale Cirrascale
$0.28/hr

Billing Options

Amazon Web Services AWS
On-DemandReserved (36mo)Reserved (12mo)
Cirrascale Cirrascale
Reserved (1mo)Reserved (6mo)Reserved (3mo)Reserved (12mo)

Available Models

AWS offers 15 GPU models, while Cirrascale offers 9.

Amazon Web Services AWS
H100(6) A100(6) H200(1) L40S(24) RTX Pro 6000(6) B200(1) V100(6) L4(24) B300(1) T4(21)
View all 15 GPUs
Cirrascale Cirrascale
H100(4) A100(12) H200(4) B200(4) RTX A6000(4) A5000(4) A4000(4) MI300X(4) MI250(4)

Heads up: We do our best to keep these specs & prices accurate. However, cloud costs may fluctuate based on region, usage, and other factors not listed here. These are estimates based on common setups and are for informational purposes only. Always verify current rates & exact specs with the provider before provisioning.

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Which services do they offer

Here are some managed services that AWS and Cirrascale offer:

Service AWS Cirrascale
Analytics
App Testing
Block Storage
Content Delivery Network (CDN)
Container Registry
Crash Reporting
GPU-powered Servers
Load Balancer
Managed Containers
Managed Kubernetes
Managed MySQL
Managed PostgreSQL
Managed Redis®*
NoSQL Databases
Object Storage
Performance Monitoring
Push Notifications
Realtime Databases
Remote Config
Serverless Cron Jobs
Serverless Functions
Static Sites
User Authentication
Vector Databases
Virtual Private Server (VPS)

Company details

Website
Amazon Web Services AWS
aws.amazon.com
Cirrascale Cirrascale
www.cirrascale.com
Headquarters
Amazon Web Services AWS
United States of America
Cirrascale Cirrascale
United States of America
Founded
Amazon Web Services AWS
2006
Cirrascale Cirrascale
2010
Data Center Locations
Amazon Web Services AWS
31
Cirrascale Cirrascale
12
Example Customers
Amazon Web Services AWS
Vanguard, Disney, Samsung, Zocdoc, GoPro
Cirrascale Cirrascale
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Our data for AWS was last updated on June 23, 2026, and for Cirrascale on Feb. 12, 2026.

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Thunder Compute
Our sponsor
NVIDIA H100 from $1.38/hr, A100 80GB from $0.78/hr, RTX A6000 from $0.27/hr
No commitments, billed per minute, SOC 2 and GDPR compliant
Hot swappable hardware, templates for ComfyUI and Ollama
One-click connection to VS Code or Cursor, simple CLI to connect without SSH
Try now