Amazon Web Services vs Railway

The Basics

	Amazon Web Services	Railway
Website	aws.amazon.com	railway.app
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2006	2020
Data Center Locations	31	4
Example Customers	Vanguard, Disney, Samsung, Zocdoc, GoPro	--

	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

	Railway
Website	railway.app
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2020
Data Center Locations	4
Example Customers	--

Cost Comparison

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

Example configuration	Amazon Web Services	Railway
VM Small	$7.49 / mo 2 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (t3.micro)	$30.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM
VM Medium	$119.80 / mo 4 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (t3.xlarge)	$160.00 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM
VM Large	$248.20 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (c5.2xlarge)	$320.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM
Block Storage	$8.00 / mo 100 GB	$25.00 / mo 100 GB
Object Storage	$24.63 / mo 1 TB	--
Load Balancer	$22.57 / mo Network Load Balancer	Included in plan
Managed PostgreSQL	$57.59 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GiB RAM, 50 GB storage (db.t3.medium)	$92.50 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB storage
Managed Redis®*	$114.58 / mo 1 vCPU, 1.55 GiB RAM (cache.t2.small)	$30.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM
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	$100.00 $0.1 / GB

Note: These 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 Railway offer:

Service	Amazon Web Services	Railway
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)		--

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