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AWS vs Civo

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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

Civo logo Civo

  • Kubernetes clusters deploy in under 90 seconds
  • Simple CLI and API with straightforward tooling
  • Transparent, predictable pricing with no hidden fees
  • GPU infrastructure including NVIDIA B200 for AI training and inference
  • UK-headquartered with data residency options
  • LLM inference with pay-per-token access to open-source models (GPT-OSS-120b, Llama 4 Maverick, Kimi-K25) with up to 500k context windows

Price comparison

How do AWS's prices compare against Civo?

VM Small

Amazon Web Services AWS
$7.49 /mo 2 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (t3.micro)
Civo Civo
$5.43 /mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM

VM Medium

Amazon Web Services AWS
$119.80 /mo 4 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (t3.xlarge)
Civo Civo
$43.45 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM

VM Large

Amazon Web Services AWS
$248.20 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (c5.2xlarge)
Civo Civo
$86.91 /mo 6 vCPU, 16 GB RAM

Block Storage

Amazon Web Services AWS
$8.00 /mo 100 GB
Civo Civo
$10.00 /mo 100 GB

Object Storage

Amazon Web Services AWS
$24.63 /mo 1 TB
Civo Civo
$10.00 /mo 1 TB, unlimited data transfer

Load Balancer

Amazon Web Services AWS
$22.57 /mo Network Load Balancer
Civo Civo
$10.86 /mo Single node

Managed PostgreSQL

Amazon Web Services AWS
$57.59 /mo 2 vCPU, 4 GiB RAM, 50 GB storage (db.t3.medium)
Civo Civo
$43.45 /mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM

Managed Redis®*

Amazon Web Services AWS
$24.82 /mo 1 vCPU, 1.55 GiB RAM (cache.t2.small)
Civo Civo
$20.00 /mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM

Serverless 25M Executions

Amazon Web Services AWS
$36.26 /mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration
Civo Civo
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Free egress allowance

Amazon Web Services AWS
100 GB / mo
Civo Civo
--

1 TB of egress beyond allowance

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

GPU Fleet Overview

Same GPU, Both Providers

On-demand price per GPU-hour.

Amazon Web Services AWS
Civo Civo
H100 $6.88 $2.99 B300 $17.80 $7.49 H200 $7.91 $3.49 A100 $2.74 $1.09

Billing Options

Amazon Web Services AWS
On-DemandReserved (12mo)Reserved (36mo)
Civo Civo
On-DemandReserved (6mo)Reserved (12mo)Reserved (24mo)Reserved (36mo)

Available Models

AWS offers 18 GPU models, while Civo offers 6.

Amazon Web Services AWS
H100(6) H200(1) A100(6) RTX PRO 6000(6) B200(1) L40S(24) B300(1) V100(6) L4(30) T4(21)
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Civo Civo
H100(10) H200(10) A100(40) B200(3) L40S(20) B300(4)

Heads up: A provider's own page may quote a different figure, for example on tax, region or a promotion. A monthly-only plan shows a derived hourly rate. Plan figures take each provider's closest match to a common setup. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.

Which services do they offer

Here are some managed services that AWS and Civo offer:

Service AWS Civo
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
Civo Civo
civo.com
Headquarters
Amazon Web Services AWS
United States of America US flag
Civo Civo
United Kingdom GB flag
Founded
Amazon Web Services AWS
2006
Civo Civo
2015
Data Center Locations
Amazon Web Services AWS
31
Civo Civo
5
Example Customers
Amazon Web Services AWS
Vanguard, Disney, Samsung, Zocdoc, GoPro
Civo Civo
Oxford University, Orbital Materials, TrueFoundry, Fermyon, Defense.com™

Alternatives to consider

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Our data for AWS was last updated on Sept. 11, 2026, and for Civo on Sept. 11, 2026.