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Amazon Web Services vs Shadeform

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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
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

Shadeform

Launch instances anywhere with a single console and API
Leverage a multi-cloud set up, without the hassle
You can reserve instances in advance to ensure GPU availability
Free to use, zero mark-up fees

Price comparison

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

Example configuration	Amazon Web Services	Shadeform
VM Small	$7.49 / mo 2 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (t3.micro)	--
VM Medium	$119.80 / mo 4 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (t3.xlarge)	--
VM Large	$248.20 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (c5.2xlarge)	--
Block Storage	$8.00 / 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®*	$114.58 / 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	$92.16	--

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

Shadeform does not charge any fees to use their marketplace. You pay the same price as using the cloud providers directly.

Here are some example configurations:

GPU	VRAM	Price range (per hour)
Nvidia A4000	16 GB	$0.30-0.80
Nvidia A6000	48 GB	$0.57-1.93
Nvidia V100	16 GB	$0.69-3.06
Nvidia L40S	48 GB	$0.99-1.15
Nvidia A100	40 GB	$1.29-3.19
Nvidia H100	80 GB	$2.48-5.99

You can view the full list here.

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.

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Which services do they offer?

Here are some of the managed services that Amazon Web Services and Shadeform offer:

Service	Amazon Web Services	Shadeform
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	Shadeform
Website	aws.amazon.com	shadeform.ai
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2006	2023
Data Center Locations	31	--
Example Customers	Vanguard, Disney, Samsung, Zocdoc, GoPro	University of California Berkeley, Magic Studio, Neets.ai, MK1

	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

	Shadeform
Website	shadeform.ai
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2023
Data Center Locations	--
Example Customers	University of California Berkeley, Magic Studio, Neets.ai, MK1