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AWS vs Gcore

AWS offers the broadest range of services and global infrastructure. Gcore provides affordable pricing, per-minute billing, and strong edge presence with free egress traffic.

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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

Gcore logo Gcore

  • Competitive pricing with pay-as-you-go model
  • Over 210 global PoPs across six continents
  • Free DDoS protection, WAF, and egress traffic
  • Offers NVIDIA GPUs such as A100, H100, and L40S

Price comparison

How do AWS's prices compare against Gcore?

VM Small

Closest config to 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM.
Amazon Web Services AWS
$7.49 / mo 2 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (t3.micro)
Gcore Gcore
$14.07 / mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (g0-standard-1-2)

VM Medium

Closest config to 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM.
Amazon Web Services AWS
$119.80 / mo 4 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (t3.xlarge)
Gcore Gcore
$56.18 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (g0-standard-4-8)

VM Large

Closest config to 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (dedicated preferred).
Amazon Web Services AWS
$248.20 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (c5.2xlarge)
Gcore Gcore
$124.33 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (g0-standard-8-16)

Block Storage

Closest config to 100+ GB SSD, 3,000+ IOPS, 100+ MB/s throughput, no snapshots.
Amazon Web Services AWS
$8.00 / mo 100 GB
Gcore Gcore
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Object Storage

Closest config to 1 TB stored, 100 GB in / 250 GB out, 1M GET, 100k PUT/POST.
Amazon Web Services AWS
$24.63 / mo 1 TB
Gcore Gcore
$47.02 / mo 1 TB, 250k write requests

Load Balancer

Closest config to TCP, 1 node (1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM), 200+ Mbps, 1,000 conn/sec, 1 TB processed/mo.
Amazon Web Services AWS
$22.57 / mo Network Load Balancer
Gcore Gcore
$20.45 / mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 1 Public IP

Managed PostgreSQL

Closest config to 1 node, 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50+ GB storage, 10 GB read / 5 GB write per month.
Amazon Web Services AWS
$57.59 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GiB RAM, 50 GB storage (db.t3.medium)
Gcore Gcore
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Managed Redis®*

Closest config to 1 node, 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM, 10 req/s, 1 KB avg request size.
Amazon Web Services AWS
$24.82 / mo 1 vCPU, 1.55 GiB RAM (cache.t2.small)
Gcore Gcore
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Serverless 25M Executions

Closest config to 25M invocations, 150ms execution time, 512 MB memory.
Amazon Web Services AWS
$36.26 / mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration
Gcore Gcore
$14.92 / mo 25M invocations, 150 ms duration

Free egress allowance

Amazon Web Services AWS
100 GB / mo
Gcore Gcore
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1 TB of egress beyond allowance

Amazon Web Services AWS
$90.00 $0.09 / GB (North America)
Gcore Gcore
Free for most services Server egress is free. CDN includes 1 TB, then €0.030/GB

GPU Fleet Overview

Starting Price

Amazon Web Services AWS
$0.19/hr
Gcore Gcore
$1.08/hr

Billing Options

Amazon Web Services AWS
On-DemandReserved (36mo)Reserved (12mo)
Gcore Gcore
On-DemandCustomReserved (36mo)Reserved (12mo)

Available Models

AWS offers 15 GPU models, while Gcore offers 5.

Amazon Web Services AWS
H100(6) A100(6) H200(1) L40S(24) B200(1) RTX Pro 6000(6) V100(6) L4(24) B300(1) T4(21)
View all 15 GPUs
Gcore Gcore
H100(3) A100(3) H200(1) L40S(3) GB200(1)

Heads up: We do our best to keep these prices accurate. However, cloud costs may fluctuate based on region, usage, and other factors not listed here. These are estimates based on common setups and are for informational purposes only. Always verify current rates with the provider before provisioning.

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Which services do they offer

Here are some managed services that AWS and Gcore offer:

Service AWS Gcore
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
Gcore Gcore
gcore.com
Headquarters
Amazon Web Services AWS
United States of America
Gcore Gcore
Luxembourg
Founded
Amazon Web Services AWS
2006
Gcore Gcore
2014
Data Center Locations
Amazon Web Services AWS
31
Gcore Gcore
53
Example Customers
Amazon Web Services AWS
Vanguard, Disney, Samsung, Zocdoc, GoPro
Gcore Gcore
Xsolla, jsDelivr, Orange, Avast

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Our data for AWS was last updated on June 10, 2026, and for Gcore on Feb. 12, 2026.

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Thunder Compute
Our sponsor
NVIDIA H100 from $1.38/hr, A100 80GB from $0.78/hr, RTX A6000 from $0.27/hr
No commitments, billed per minute, SOC 2 and GDPR compliant
Hot swappable hardware, templates for ComfyUI and Ollama
One-click connection to VS Code or Cursor, simple CLI to connect without SSH
Try now