AWS vs Flightcontrol

AWS gives you a wide range of cloud services and configuration options. However, things can get complex really quickly without the help of a devops team. That's were Flightcontrol can be helpful. They give you the easy-to-use experience of a PaaS on top of your AWS account.

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
  • Several products such as S3 are industry benchmarks
  • Generous free tier and savings plan available to lock-in discounts
  • 30+ datacenter locations around the world

Amazon Web Services logo Flightcontrol

  • Your AWS infrastructure is managed by a seasoned devops team at a fraction of the cost
  • Excellent documentation and easy-to-use dashboard
  • Great developer experience: preview environments, rollbacks, notifications, monitoring
  • Deploy close to your users, supports 28 AWS regions

Price comparison

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

Example configuration Amazon Web Services Flightcontrol
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 --
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 --
1 TB of egress beyond allowance $92.16 --

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 Reserve
p4d.24xlarge 8x A100 320GB 96 1152GB $32.77 Reserve
p5.48xlarge 8x H100 640GB 192 2048GB $98.32

Flightcontrol charges a fixed monthly fee to use their service in addition to the standard AWS usage costs. They claim this model gives you up to 75% lower costs at scale when compared to traditional PaaS offerings.

There are currently 4 plans available:

  • Free: limited to 1 user, but commercial use is allowed.
  • Starter $49/mo: includes 5 services and multiple users.
  • Business $249/mo: includes 10 services, preview environments, RBAC and multi-region.
  • Enterprise: custom pricing, SLAs, premium support.

Additional services cost $15-30/mo, depending on the plan.

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 Flightcontrol offer:

Service Amazon Web Services Flightcontrol
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
Flightcontrol
Website flightcontrol.dev
Headquarters United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded 2021
Data Center Locations --
Example Customers Cal.com, Remi, Cascade PBS, Drive, Productlane

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Our data for Amazon Web Services was last updated on Aug. 15, 2024, and for Flightcontrol on Aug. 16, 2024.