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AWS vs Contabo

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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

Contabo logo Contabo

  • Low-cost VPS and dedicated servers
  • Offers GPUs and object storage too
  • Available in 9 regions around the world

Price comparison

How do AWS's prices compare against Contabo?

VM Small

Amazon Web Services AWS
$7.49 / mo 2 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (t3.micro)
Contabo Contabo
$6.39 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (Cloud VPS 4)

VM Medium

Amazon Web Services AWS
$119.80 / mo 4 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (t3.xlarge)
Contabo Contabo
$8.72 / mo 6 vCPU, 12 GB RAM (Cloud VPS 6)

VM Large

Amazon Web Services AWS
$248.20 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (c5.2xlarge)
Contabo Contabo
$16.27 / mo 8 vCPU, 24 GB RAM (Cloud VPS 8)

Block Storage

Amazon Web Services AWS
$8.00 / mo 100 GB
Contabo Contabo
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Object Storage

Amazon Web Services AWS
$24.63 / mo 1 TB
Contabo Contabo
$11.58 / mo 1 TB

Load Balancer

Amazon Web Services AWS
$22.57 / mo Network Load Balancer
Contabo Contabo
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Managed PostgreSQL

Amazon Web Services AWS
$57.59 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GiB RAM, 50 GB storage (db.t3.medium)
Contabo Contabo
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Managed Redis®*

Amazon Web Services AWS
$24.82 / mo 1 vCPU, 1.55 GiB RAM (cache.t2.small)
Contabo Contabo
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Serverless 25M Executions

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

Amazon Web Services AWS
100 GB / mo
Contabo Contabo
Unlimited, fair usage policy applies 200 Mbit/s to 1 Gbit/s port by plan

1 TB of egress beyond allowance

Amazon Web Services AWS
$90.00 $0.09 / GB (North America)
Contabo Contabo
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GPU Fleet Overview

Billing Options

Amazon Web Services AWS
On-DemandReserved (12mo)Reserved (36mo)
Contabo Contabo
Reserved (1mo)

Available Models

AWS offers 18 GPU models, while Contabo offers 4.

Amazon Web Services AWS
H100(6) A100(6) RTX PRO 6000(6) H200(1) L40S(24) B200(1) B300(1) V100(6) L4(30) T4(21)
View all 18 GPUs →
Contabo Contabo
RTX PRO 6000(2) H200(3) L40S(2) RTX PRO 5000(2)

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.

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Which services do they offer

Here are some managed services that AWS and Contabo offer:

Service AWS Contabo
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
Contabo Contabo
contabo.com
Headquarters
Amazon Web Services AWS
United States of America US flag
Contabo Contabo
Germany DE flag
Founded
Amazon Web Services AWS
2006
Contabo Contabo
2003
Data Center Locations
Amazon Web Services AWS
31
Contabo Contabo
9
Example Customers
Amazon Web Services AWS
Vanguard, Disney, Samsung, Zocdoc, GoPro
Contabo Contabo
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Alternatives to consider

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Our data for AWS was last updated on Sept. 6, 2026, and for Contabo on Aug. 31, 2026.