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
Render
- Lots of managed services: from caches to databases to cron jobs to background workers
- Very easy for setting up Git-based deployments
- Managed PostgreSQL supports automated backups, replicas, Point-in-Time Recovery
- Generous free tier
Price comparison
How do Amazon Web Services's prices compare against Render?
| Example configuration |
Amazon Web Services
|
Render
|
|---|---|---|
| VM Small | $7.49 / mo 2 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (t3.micro) | $25.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (Web Service) |
| VM Medium | $119.80 / mo 4 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (t3.xlarge) | $175.00 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (Web Service) |
| VM Large | $248.20 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (c5.2xlarge) | $450.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 32 GB RAM (Web Service) |
| 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) | $95.00 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 96 GB storage |
| Managed Redis®* | $114.58 / mo 1 vCPU, 1.55 GiB RAM (cache.t2.small) | $32.00 / mo 1 GB RAM |
| Serverless 25M Executions | $36.26 / mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration | -- |
| Free egress allowance | 100 GB / mo | 100 GB - 1 TB, depends on plan |
| 1 TB of egress beyond allowance | $92.16 | $300.00 |
AWS offers GPUs in the following configurations:
| Name | GPUs | Total GPU Memory | vCPUs | RAM | Price per hour |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
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 Render offer:
| Service |
Amazon Web Services
|
Render
|
|---|---|---|
| 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
|
Amazon Web Services
|
Render
|
|
|---|---|---|
| Website | aws.amazon.com | render.com |
| Headquarters | United States of America 🇺🇸 | United States of America 🇺🇸 |
| Founded | 2006 | 2018 |
| Data Center Locations | 31 | 4 |
| Example Customers | Vanguard, Disney, Samsung, Zocdoc, GoPro | Red Bull, Watershed, Equals, Felt |
|
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 |
|
Render
|
|
|---|---|
| Website | render.com |
| Headquarters | United States of America 🇺🇸 |
| Founded | 2018 |
| Data Center Locations | 4 |
| Example Customers | Red Bull, Watershed, Equals, Felt |
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Our data for Amazon Web Services was last updated on July 24, 2024, and for Render on July 24, 2024.