The Basics

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
Cloudflare
Website cloudflare.com
Headquarters United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded 2009
Data Center Locations 285
Example Customers Polestar, Carrefour, DHL, Hemnet, Shopify

Cost Comparison

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

Example configuration Amazon Web Services Cloudflare
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 $19.86 / 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®* $114.58 / mo 1 vCPU, 1.55 GiB RAM (cache.t2.small) --
Serverless 25M Executions $36.26 / mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration $82.50 / mo 25M invocations, 150 ms duration
Free egress allowance 100 GB / mo --
1 TB of egress beyond allowance $92.16 Free for most services

Note: These 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 Cloudflare offer:

Service Amazon Web Services Cloudflare
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) --

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Our data for Amazon Web Services was last updated on Feb. 29, 2024, and for Cloudflare on Feb. 9, 2024.