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AWS vs Nova Cloud

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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

Nova Cloud logo Nova Cloud

  • Per-second billing with no contracts or minimum spend
  • Owned-and-operated datacenters in Western Canada
  • Reserved 1, 3, and 6 month terms for additional discounts
  • 5 Gb/s network bandwidth with all ports available

Price comparison

How do AWS's prices compare against Nova Cloud?

VM Small

Amazon Web Services AWS
$7.49 / mo 2 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (t3.micro)
Nova Cloud Nova Cloud
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VM Medium

Amazon Web Services AWS
$119.80 / mo 4 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (t3.xlarge)
Nova Cloud Nova Cloud
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VM Large

Amazon Web Services AWS
$248.20 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (c5.2xlarge)
Nova Cloud Nova Cloud
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Block Storage

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

Amazon Web Services AWS
$24.63 / mo 1 TB
Nova Cloud Nova Cloud
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Load Balancer

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

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

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

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

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

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

Same GPU, Both Providers

On-demand price per GPU-hour.

Amazon Web Services AWS
Nova Cloud Nova Cloud
RTX PRO 6000 $3.36 $1.26

Billing Options

Amazon Web Services AWS
On-DemandReserved (12mo)Reserved (36mo)
Nova Cloud Nova Cloud
On-DemandSpotReserved (1mo)Reserved (3mo)Reserved (6mo)

Available Models

AWS offers 18 GPU models, while Nova Cloud offers 2.

Amazon Web Services AWS
H100(6) H200(1) RTX PRO 6000(6) A100(6) L40S(24) B200(1) B300(1) V100(6) L4(30) T4(21)
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Nova Cloud Nova Cloud
RTX PRO 6000(20) RTX 5090(20)

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 Nova Cloud offer:

Service AWS Nova Cloud
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
Nova Cloud Nova Cloud
nova-cloud.ai
Headquarters
Amazon Web Services AWS
United States of America US flag
Nova Cloud Nova Cloud
Canada CA flag
Founded
Amazon Web Services AWS
2006
Nova Cloud Nova Cloud
2018
Data Center Locations
Amazon Web Services AWS
31
Nova Cloud Nova Cloud
1
Example Customers
Amazon Web Services AWS
Vanguard, Disney, Samsung, Zocdoc, GoPro
Nova Cloud Nova Cloud
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Alternatives to consider

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Our data for AWS was last updated on Sept. 10, 2026, and for Nova Cloud on Sept. 11, 2026.