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AWS vs RunPod

AWS is a comprehensive cloud provider with a wide range of servers and managed services. RunPod specializes in affordable GPUs with built-in autoscaling, monitoring and hot-reloading.

In this page:

What's good
Price comparison
What services do they offer
Company details
Alternatives to consider

What's good about...

Amazon Web Services

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

Affordable GPUs in various configurations
Packed with features: hot-reloading, managed containers, logging & monitoring
Available in 30+ regions across the world

Price comparison

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

Example configuration	Amazon Web Services	RunPod
VM Small	$7.49 / mo 2 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (t3.micro)	$43.20 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM (Compute-Optimized)
VM Medium	$119.80 / mo 4 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (t3.xlarge)	$86.40 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (Compute-Optimized)
VM Large	$248.20 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (c5.2xlarge)	$172.80 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (Compute-Optimized)
Block Storage	$8.00 / mo 100 GB	$10.00 / mo $0.10 / GB / mo 100 GB
Object Storage	$24.63 / mo 1 TB	--
Load Balancer	$22.57 / mo Network Load Balancer	--
Managed PostgreSQL	$57.59 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GiB RAM, 50 GB storage (db.t3.medium)	--
Managed Redis®*	$24.82 / 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 TB of egress beyond allowance	$90.00 $0.09 / GB (North America)	Free and unlimited

AWS offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name	GPUs	VRAM	vCPUs	RAM	Price/h
g5g.xlarge	1x T4G	16GB	4	16GB	$0.42
g4dn.xlarge	1x T4G	16GB	4	16GB	$0.53	Launch
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	$1.63	Launch
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	Launch
g4dn.12xlarge	4x T4G	64GB	48	192GB	$3.92	Launch
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
g5.12xlarge	4x A10G	384GB	48	192GB	$5.68	Launch
p2.8xlarge	8x K80	96GB	32	488GB	$7.20
g4dn.metal	8x T4G	128GB	96	384GB	$7.83	Launch
g5.24xlarge	4x A10G	96GB	96	384GB	$8.14
p3.8xlarge	4x V100	64GB	32	244GB	$12.24	Launch
p2.16xlarge	16x K80	192GB	64	732GB	$14.40
g5.48xlarge	8x A10G	192GB	192	768GB	$16.29	Launch
p3.16xlarge	8x V100	128GB	64	488GB	$24.48	Reserve
p4d.24xlarge	8x A100	320GB	96	1152GB	$32.77	Reserve
p5.48xlarge	8x H100	640GB	192	2048GB	$98.32

RunPod offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name	GPUs	VRAM	vCPUs	RAM	Price/h
RTX3070	1x RTX3070	8GB	16	31GB	$0.13
A4000	1x A4000	16GB	4	17GB	$0.17
A4500	1x A4500	20GB	4	29GB	$0.19
A4000 Ada	1x A4000	20GB	4	31GB	$0.20
A30	1x A30	24GB	8	31GB	$0.22
A5000	1x A5000	24GB	4	24GB	$0.22
RTX4090	1x RTX4090	24GB	7	24GB	$0.44
A40	1x A40	48GB	9	50GB	$0.47
A6000	1x A6000	48GB	8	50GB	$0.49
L40S	1x L40S	48GB	12	62GB	$0.79
A6000 Ada	1x A6000	48GB	14	62GB	$0.79
MI250	1x MI250	128GB	--	--	$0.90
L40	1x L40S	48GB	16	250GB	$0.99
A100 PCIe	1x A100	80GB	8	83GB	$1.19
A100 SXM	1x A100	80GB	16	125GB	$1.94
H100 PCIe	1x H100	80GB	16	176GB	$2.69
H100 SXM	1x H100	80GB	24	125GB	$2.99
MI300X	1x MI300X	192GB	24	283GB	$3.99

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 RunPod offer:

Service	Amazon Web Services	RunPod
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	RunPod
Website	aws.amazon.com	www.runpod.io
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2006	2022
Data Center Locations	31	24
Example Customers	Vanguard, Disney, Samsung, Zocdoc, GoPro	AfterShoot, Replika, Otovo, Data Science Dojo, Abzu

	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

	RunPod
Website	www.runpod.io
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2022
Data Center Locations	24
Example Customers	AfterShoot, Replika, Otovo, Data Science Dojo, Abzu