AWS
vs
Thalassa Cloud
AWS offers comprehensive global services with extensive features, while Thalassa Cloud provides simpler European-focused infrastructure with transparent per-minute billing and no vendor lock-in.
What's good about each
- 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
- European cloud with data residency in the Netherlands
- Full Terraform support and API-first platform
- Billed by the minute, with monthly invoicing in Euro
- Direct engineer support in Dutch and English
Price comparison
Closest matching configuration on each side, monthly list price in USD.
| Service | AWS | Thalassa Cloud | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small VM | $7.49 /mo 2 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (t3.micro) | $9.44 /mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM | 21% cheaper on AWS |
| Medium VM | $119.80 /mo 4 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (t3.xlarge) | $126.03 /mo 4 vCPU, 16 GB RAM | 5% cheaper on AWS |
| Large VM | $248.20 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (c5.2xlarge) | $256.39 /mo 8 vCPU, 32 GB RAM | Within 5% |
| Block storage | $8.00 /mo 100 GB | $20.53 /mo 100 GB NVMe | 2.6x more expensive on Thalassa Cloud |
| Object storage | $24.63 /mo 1 TB | -- Not listed | |
| PostgreSQL | $57.59 /mo 2 vCPU, 4 GiB RAM, 50 GB storage (db.t3.medium) | $25.46 /mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM (db-pgp.medium) | 2.3x more expensive on AWS |
| Redis | $24.82 /mo 1 vCPU, 1.55 GiB RAM (cache.t2.small) | -- Not listed | |
| Load balancer | $22.57 /mo Network Load Balancer | $17.19 /mo HA Network Load Balancer | 24% cheaper on Thalassa Cloud |
| Serverless | $36.26 /mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration | -- Not listed | |
| Egress allowance | 100 GB / mo | -- Not listed | |
| Egress | $90.00 /TB $0.09 / GB (North America) | -- Not listed |
Heads up: Figures take each provider's closest plan to a common setup, and vary by region and usage. Hover a service for the reference configuration. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.
GPUs
AWS offers 18 GPU models. We track no GPU listings from Thalassa Cloud. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.
| GPU | AWS | Thalassa Cloud | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
H100
6 configs
|
$2.97 /GPU/hr Reserved (36 mo) | -- | AWS only |
|
B300
1 config
|
$17.80 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | AWS only |
|
B200
1 config
|
$14.24 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | AWS only |
|
RTX PRO 6000
6 configs
|
$3.36 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | AWS only |
|
H200
1 config
|
$7.91 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | AWS only |
|
A100
6 configs
|
$1.17 /GPU/hr Reserved (36 mo) | -- | AWS only |
|
GB200
1 config
|
$10.58 /GPU/hr Reserved | -- | AWS only |
|
L40S
24 configs
|
$0.80 /GPU/hr Reserved (36 mo) | -- | AWS only |
|
GB300
1 config
|
-- On request | -- | AWS only |
|
L4
30 configs
|
$0.37 /GPU/hr Reserved (36 mo) | -- | AWS only |
AWS bills on-demand and reserved (12 or 36 months). The line under each price names the billing type shown.
Services
Managed services each provider offers.
Company details
| Fact | AWS | Thalassa Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2006 | 2024 |
| Headquarters | USA | Netherlands |
| Locations | 31 | 1 |
| Example customers | Vanguard, Disney, Samsung, Zocdoc, GoPro | ContainerInfra, RepliKate, Balean, BrainHive, BaseTide |
| Website | aws.amazon.com | thalassa.cloud |
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Our data for AWS was last updated on Sept. 12, 2026, and for Thalassa Cloud on Feb. 12, 2026.