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AWS vs Thunder Compute

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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

Thunder Compute logo Thunder Compute

  • RTX A6000, L40, A100 and H100, 1 to 8 GPUs
  • Per-minute billing, charged only while an instance runs
  • One-click VS Code and Cursor connections
  • MCP server for Claude Code, Cursor and Codex
  • 100 GB persistent disk per GPU, no egress fees

Price comparison

How do AWS's prices compare against Thunder Compute?

VM Small

Amazon Web Services AWS
$7.49 /mo 2 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (t3.micro)
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
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VM Medium

Amazon Web Services AWS
$119.80 /mo 4 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (t3.xlarge)
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
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VM Large

Amazon Web Services AWS
$248.20 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (c5.2xlarge)
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
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Block Storage

Amazon Web Services AWS
$8.00 /mo 100 GB
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
$21.60 /mo 100 GB beyond free allowance · First 100 GB per GPU included

Object Storage

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

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

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

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

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

Amazon Web Services AWS
100 GB / mo
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
--

1 TB of egress beyond allowance

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

GPU Fleet Overview

Same GPU, Both Providers

On-demand price per GPU-hour.

Amazon Web Services AWS
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
H100 $6.88 $3.20 A100 $2.74 $1.09

Billing Options

Amazon Web Services AWS
On-DemandReserved (12mo)Reserved (36mo)
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
On-Demand

Available Models

AWS offers 18 GPU models, while Thunder Compute offers 4.

Amazon Web Services AWS
H100(6) H200(1) A100(6) RTX PRO 6000(6) B200(1) L40S(24) B300(1) V100(6) L4(30) T4(21)
View all 18 GPUs →
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
H100(4) A100(4) RTX A6000(1) L40(4)

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 Thunder Compute offer:

Service AWS Thunder Compute
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
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
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
www.thundercompute.com
Headquarters
Amazon Web Services AWS
United States of America US flag
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
United States of America US flag
Founded
Amazon Web Services AWS
2006
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
2024
Data Center Locations
Amazon Web Services AWS
31
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
1
Example Customers
Amazon Web Services AWS
Vanguard, Disney, Samsung, Zocdoc, GoPro
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
Theseus, ETH Zürich, MIT, NYU Langone Health

Alternatives to consider

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