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AWS vs Runpod

AWS is a comprehensive cloud provider offering GPU instances alongside hundreds of managed services, with enterprise compliance and reserved-capacity options. Runpod focuses specifically on GPU compute, with simpler pricing, per-second billing, and faster instance startup.

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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

Runpod logo Runpod

  • Deploy affordable GPUs in under a minute
  • Scale across 30+ regions worldwide
  • SOC 2 Type II certified, 99.9% uptime SLA
  • Flexible billing: pay by the second, no commitments
  • Multi-node Clusters scale to thousands of GPUs
  • Built-in deployments, autoscaling & monitoring

Price comparison

How do AWS's prices compare against Runpod?

VM Small

Amazon Web Services AWS
$7.49 / mo 2 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (t3.micro)
Runpod Runpod
$43.20 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM (Compute-Optimized)

VM Medium

Amazon Web Services AWS
$119.80 / mo 4 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (t3.xlarge)
Runpod Runpod
$86.40 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (Compute-Optimized)

VM Large

Amazon Web Services AWS
$248.20 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (c5.2xlarge)
Runpod Runpod
$172.80 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (Compute-Optimized)

Block Storage

Amazon Web Services AWS
$8.00 / mo 100 GB
Runpod Runpod
$10.00 / mo 100 GB

Object Storage

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

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

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

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

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

Amazon Web Services AWS
100 GB / mo
Runpod Runpod
Free and unlimited

1 TB of egress beyond allowance

Amazon Web Services AWS
$90.00 $0.09 / GB (North America)
Runpod Runpod
Free and unlimited

GPU Fleet Overview

Same GPU, Both Providers

On-demand price per GPU-hour.

Amazon Web Services AWS
Runpod Runpod
H100 $6.88 $2.59 B300 $17.80 $7.89 B200 $14.24 $6.79 H200 $7.91 $3.59

Billing Options

Amazon Web Services AWS
On-DemandReserved (12mo)Reserved (36mo)
Runpod Runpod
On-DemandReservation

Available Models

AWS offers 18 GPU models, while Runpod offers 35.

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)
View all 18 GPUs →
Runpod Runpod
H100(11) H200(7) RTX PRO 6000(3) A100(10) L40S(7) B200(3) B300(4) RTX A6000(3) V100(3) RTX 5090(6)
View all 35 GPUs →

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.

Which services do they offer

Here are some managed services that AWS and Runpod offer:

Service AWS Runpod
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
Python Notebooks
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
Runpod Runpod
www.runpod.io
Headquarters
Amazon Web Services AWS
United States of America US flag
Runpod Runpod
United States of America US flag
Founded
Amazon Web Services AWS
2006
Runpod Runpod
2022
Data Center Locations
Amazon Web Services AWS
31
Runpod Runpod
32
Example Customers
Amazon Web Services AWS
Vanguard, Disney, Samsung, Zocdoc, GoPro
Runpod Runpod
Zillow, CivitAI, Wix, OpenAI, Perplexity, Cursor

Alternatives to consider

Compare AWS and Runpod against other cloud providers.

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Our data for AWS was last updated on Sept. 11, 2026, and for Runpod on Sept. 11, 2026.