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AWS vs Fly.io

AWS is a comprehensive cloud platform with hundreds of services and is highly configurable. Fly.io makes it easy to deploy containerized apps at the edge for low-latency applications.

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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

Fly.io logo Fly.io

  • Excellent tooling and developer experience
  • Fast deployments, scale to zero, little config needed
  • Per-second billing, with a 40% discount for reserved compute blocks
  • Anycast networking and global load balancing included at no extra cost

Price comparison

How do AWS's prices compare against Fly.io?

VM Small

Amazon Web Services AWS
$7.49 / mo 2 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (t3.micro)
Fly.io Fly.io
$5.70 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (shared-cpu-1x)

VM Medium

Amazon Web Services AWS
$119.80 / mo 4 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (t3.xlarge)
Fly.io Fly.io
$42.79 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (shared-cpu-4x)

VM Large

Amazon Web Services AWS
$248.20 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (c5.2xlarge)
Fly.io Fly.io
$248.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (performance-8x)

Block Storage

Amazon Web Services AWS
$8.00 / mo 100 GB
Fly.io Fly.io
$15.00 / mo 100 GB

Object Storage

Amazon Web Services AWS
$24.63 / mo 1 TB
Fly.io Fly.io
$20.50 / mo 1 TB (Tigris)

Load Balancer

Amazon Web Services AWS
$22.57 / mo Network Load Balancer
Fly.io Fly.io
Included with apps

Managed PostgreSQL

Amazon Web Services AWS
$57.59 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GiB RAM, 50 GB storage (db.t3.medium)
Fly.io Fly.io
$86.00 / mo 2 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 50 GB storage (Starter)

Managed Redis®*

Amazon Web Services AWS
$24.82 / mo 1 vCPU, 1.55 GiB RAM (cache.t2.small)
Fly.io Fly.io
$20.00 / mo 1 GB data (Upstash Fixed 1GB)

Serverless 25M Executions

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

Amazon Web Services AWS
100 GB / mo
Fly.io Fly.io
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1 TB of egress beyond allowance

Amazon Web Services AWS
$90.00 $0.09 / GB (North America)
Fly.io Fly.io
$20.00 $0.02 / GB (North America and Europe)

GPU Fleet Overview

Billing Options

Amazon Web Services AWS
On-DemandReserved (12mo)Reserved (36mo)
Fly.io Fly.io
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Available Models

AWS offers 18 GPU models.

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 →
Fly.io Fly.io
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Heads up: Prices are estimates from published rates for common setups and vary by region and usage; verify with the provider before provisioning.

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Which services do they offer

Here are some managed services that AWS and Fly.io offer:

Service AWS Fly.io
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
Fly.io Fly.io
fly.io
Headquarters
Amazon Web Services AWS
United States of America US flag
Fly.io Fly.io
United States of America US flag
Founded
Amazon Web Services AWS
2006
Fly.io Fly.io
2017
Data Center Locations
Amazon Web Services AWS
31
Fly.io Fly.io
18
Example Customers
Amazon Web Services AWS
Vanguard, Disney, Samsung, Zocdoc, GoPro
Fly.io Fly.io
Cars.com, Fanatics, Tailscale, Supabase

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Our data for AWS was last updated on Aug. 30, 2026, and for Fly.io on Aug. 24, 2026.