Cloud Pricing Comparison — AWS vs Azure vs GCP

Indicative, not a quote. Prices are normalized to a common unit per capability and carry a confidence tag (live = pulled from the provider’s pricing API; list = published list price). Each row shows its as_of date. Excludes committed-use discounts, support, and tax. Cloudflare is covered on its own page (partial, edge-native stack) — its standout is $0 egress.

Object Storage

Unit: USD per GB-month

Provider	Service	Unit price	Source	As of
AWS	S3 Standard	$0.023	live	2026-06-30
Azure	Blob Storage (Hot, LRS)	$0.0208	live	2026-06-30
GCP	Cloud Storage Standard	$0.02	live	2026-06-30

Cheapest of the three: GCP at $0.02/GB-month.

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Assumptions: Standard/hot tier, single-region, locally-redundant (LRS-equivalent); Capacity (data-at-rest), first pricing tier. Excludes: Request/operation charges, Data egress, Replication/GRS, Lifecycle transitions.

Block Storage (SSD volume)

Unit: USD per GB-month

Provider	Service	Unit price	Source	As of
AWS	EBS gp3	$0.08	live	2026-06-30
Azure	Premium SSD Managed Disk	$0.12	list	2026-06-30
GCP	Persistent Disk (Balanced)	$0.1	live	2026-06-30

Cheapest of the three: AWS at $0.08/GB-month.

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Assumptions: General-purpose SSD volume, provisioned capacity; Excludes provisioned IOPS/throughput add-ons. Excludes: Provisioned IOPS/throughput, Snapshots, Egress.

VM Compute (general purpose, ~2 vCPU / 8 GB)

Unit: USD per vCPU-hour

Provider	Service	Unit price	Source	As of
AWS	EC2 m5.large (2 vCPU)	$0.048	live	2026-06-30
Azure	D2s v5 (2 vCPU)	$0.048	live	2026-06-30
GCP	e2-standard-2 (2 vCPU)	$0.0335	live	2026-06-30

Cheapest of the three: GCP at $0.0335/vCPU-hour.

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Assumptions: On-demand Linux, general-purpose 2 vCPU/8 GB reference SKU, normalized per-vCPU; No reserved/committed-use discount. Excludes: Reserved/savings-plan discounts, Attached storage, Egress, Windows licensing.

Serverless Functions / Edge Compute

Unit: USD per 1M requests

Provider	Service	Unit price	Source	As of
AWS	Lambda	$0.2	list	2026-06-30
Azure	Functions (Consumption)	$0.2	list	2026-06-30
GCP	Cloud Run / Functions	$0.4	list	2026-06-30

Cheapest of the three: AWS at $0.2/1M requests.

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Assumptions: Request/invocation price only; After any free monthly allowance. Excludes: GB-second compute duration, Egress, Provisioned concurrency.

Managed Relational DB (PostgreSQL, ~2 vCPU / 8 GB)

Unit: USD per instance-hour

Provider	Service	Unit price	Source	As of
AWS	RDS PostgreSQL db.m5.large	$0.178	list	2026-06-30
Azure	Azure DB for PostgreSQL (Flexible, D2s_v3)	$0.14	list	2026-06-30
GCP	Cloud SQL PostgreSQL (2 vCPU)	$0.1	list	2026-06-30

Cheapest of the three: GCP at $0.1/instance-hour.

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Assumptions: Single-AZ managed PostgreSQL, ~2 vCPU/8 GB reference instance, on-demand. Excludes: Storage + IOPS, Multi-AZ/HA, Backups beyond free, Egress.

Internet Data Egress

Unit: USD per GB

Provider	Service	Unit price	Source	As of
AWS	EC2/S3 egress	$0.09	list	2026-06-30
Azure	Bandwidth egress	$0.087	list	2026-06-30
GCP	Network egress	$0.12	list	2026-06-30

Cheapest of the three: Azure at $0.087/GB.

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Assumptions: Data transfer OUT to internet, first paid tier (after free allowance). Excludes: Inter-region/inter-AZ transfer, CDN-discounted egress, Private link.

CDN (content delivery egress)

Unit: USD per GB

Provider	Service	Unit price	Source	As of
AWS	CloudFront	$0.085	list	2026-06-30
Azure	Front Door / CDN	$0.081	list	2026-06-30
GCP	Cloud CDN	$0.08	list	2026-06-30

Cheapest of the three: GCP at $0.08/GB.

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Assumptions: Cache egress to internet, North America/Europe first tier. Excludes: Requests, Real-time logs, WAF/security add-ons.

Managed Kubernetes (control plane)

Unit: USD per cluster-hour

Provider	Service	Unit price	Source	As of
AWS	EKS	$0.1	list	2026-06-30
Azure	AKS	$0	list	2026-06-30
GCP	GKE	$0.1	list	2026-06-30

Cheapest of the three: Azure at $0/cluster-hour.

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Assumptions: Control-plane/management fee only. Excludes: Worker node compute, Load balancers, Storage, Egress.

Generated from the live cost catalog via scripts/gen_cloud_docs.py. Re-run to refresh pricing.