page_title: Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
section_title: Pricing
hierarchical_section_title: Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud / Pricing
caption_attribution_description: English: LINUX CLOUD HOSTING: PERFORMANCE INDEX 16 - 1040 (2CPU, 8GB RAM - 16CPU, 65GB RAM)
context_page_description: Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud is a part of Amazon.com's cloud-computing platform, Amazon Web Services, that allows users to rent virtual computers on which to run their own computer applications. EC2 encourages scalable deployment of applications by providing a web service through which a user can boot an Amazon Machine Image to configure a virtual machine, which Amazon calls an "instance", containing any software desired. A user can create, launch, and terminate server-instances as needed, paying by the second for active servers – hence the term "elastic". EC2 provides users with control over the geographical location of instances that allows for latency optimization and high levels of redundancy.
  In November 2010, Amazon switched its own retail website to use EC2 and AWS.
context_section_description: Generally, Amazon EC2 priced on per instance / per hour basis. However, any instance can be rented on per month basis as well. In such case, Reserved and Spot Instances pricing can be applied resulting in significant discount. Instances are priced depending on their "size", namely how much CPU and RAM included.
  Amazon EC2 price varies from $2.5 per month for "nano" instance with 1 vCPU and 0.5 GB RAM on board to "xlarge" type of instances with 32 vCPU and 488 GB RAM billed up to $3997.19 per month.
  The charts above show how Amazon EC2 pricing is compared to similar Cloud Computing services: Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Kamatera, and Vultr.
caption: LINUX CLOUD HOSTING: PERFORMANCE INDEX 16 - 1040 (2CPU, 8GB RAM - 16CPU, 65GB RAM)
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