What's good about...
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
Linode
- Wide range of VPS configurations available (high memory, dedicated CPU, GPU)
- Managed PostgreSQL, MySQL, Kubernetes and Object Storage available
- Good price–performance ratio for most of its services
- Many data center locations available
Price comparison
How do Amazon Web Services's prices compare against Linode?
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VM Small | $7.49 / mo 2 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (t3.micro) | $5.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (Shared) |
VM Medium | $119.80 / mo 4 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (t3.xlarge) | $48.00 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (Shared) |
VM Large | $248.20 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (c5.2xlarge) | $114.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (Dedicated) |
Block Storage | $8.00 / mo 100 GB | $16.00 / mo 160 GB |
Object Storage | $24.63 / mo 1 TB | $20.00 / mo 1 TB |
Load Balancer | $22.57 / mo Network Load Balancer | $10.00 / mo |
Managed PostgreSQL | $57.59 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GiB RAM, 50 GB storage (db.t3.medium) | $65.00 / mo 2 CPU, 4 GB RAM, 80 GB storage |
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 | -- |
Free egress allowance | 100 GB / mo | 1-20 TB / mo per instance |
1 TB of egress beyond allowance | $92.16 | $5.00 |
AWS offers GPUs in the following configurations:
Name | GPUs | Total GPU Memory | vCPUs | RAM | Price per hour |
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g5g.xlarge | 1x T4G | 16GB | 4 | 16GB | $0.42 |
g4dn.xlarge | 1x T4G | 16GB | 4 | 16GB | $0.53 |
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 | $1.62 |
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 |
g4dn.12xlarge | 4x T4G | 64GB | 48 | 192GB | $3.91 |
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 |
g5.16xlarge | 2x A10G | 48GB | 64 | 256GB | $5.67 |
p2.8xlarge | 8x K80 | 96GB | 32 | 488GB | $7.20 |
g4dn.metal | 8x T4G | 128GB | 96 | 384GB | $7.82 |
g5.24xlarge | 4x A10G | 96GB | 96 | 384GB | $8.14 |
p3.8xlarge | 4x V100 | 64GB | 32 | 244GB | $12.24 |
p2.16xlarge | 16x K80 | 192GB | 64 | 732GB | $14.40 |
g5.48xlarge | 8x A10G | 192GB | 192 | 768GB | $16.29 |
p3.16xlarge | 8x V100 | 128GB | 64 | 488GB | $24.48 |
p4d.24xlarge | 8x A100 | 320GB | 96 | 1152GB | $32.77 |
p5.48xlarge | 8x H100 | 640GB | 192 | 2048GB | $98.32 |
Linode offers GPUs in the following configurations:
Name | GPUs | Total GPU Memory | vCPUs | RAM | Price per hour |
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GPU1 | 1x RTX6000 | 24GB | 8 | 32GB | $1.50 |
GPU2 | 2x RTX6000 | 48GB | 16 | 64GB | $3.00 |
GPU3 | 3x RTX6000 | 72GB | 20 | 96GB | $4.50 |
GPU4 | 4x RTX6000 | 96GB | 24 | 128GB | $6.00 |
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 Linode offer:
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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
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Website | aws.amazon.com | www.linode.com |
Headquarters | United States of America 🇺🇸 | United States of America 🇺🇸 |
Founded | 2006 | 2003 |
Data Center Locations | 31 | 24 |
Example Customers | Vanguard, Disney, Samsung, Zocdoc, GoPro | Panasonic, Best Buy, WayFair and Giphy |
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Website | aws.amazon.com |
Headquarters | United States of America 🇺🇸 |
Founded | 2006 |
Data Center Locations | 31 |
Example Customers | Vanguard, Disney, Samsung, Zocdoc, GoPro |
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Website | www.linode.com |
Headquarters | United States of America 🇺🇸 |
Founded | 2003 |
Data Center Locations | 24 |
Example Customers | Panasonic, Best Buy, WayFair and Giphy |
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More comparisonsOur data for Amazon Web Services was last updated on July 24, 2024, and for Linode on July 24, 2024.