Quick answer
An AWS bill is each service's usage multiplied by its list price. On official AWS prices checked October 14, 2026 in US East (N. Virginia), one always-on m6i.large EC2 server (2 vCPU, 8 GB) costs $70.08 a month, a t3.micro $7.59, and a small SaaS app (two m6i.large servers, RDS for PostgreSQL, 100 GB of S3 and 200 GB of data transfer out) $304.15. Playxoft's free AWS cost calculator prices your own setup in 12 regions and compares it with Google Cloud, Azure and Cloudflare.
- EC2, Lambda, S3, RDS
- DynamoDB and CloudFront
- 12 AWS regions
- Free tier applied
- Every line explained
- Compare with 3 clouds
How to use the AWS Cost Calculator
- 1Pick a preset, or Start empty and add the AWS services you use: EC2, Lambda, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, data transfer and CloudFront, as many of each as you need.
- 2Choose one of 12 AWS Regions across the Americas, Europe and Asia Pacific.
- 3Fill in plain numbers: how many servers and their size, requests per month, GB stored and GB sent to users.
- 4Read your AWS total at the top of the results, with Google Cloud, Azure and Cloudflare below it for comparison.
- 5Open Cost breakdown to check every line against AWS's own price, then Copy link or download a CSV.
Why is this simpler than the AWS Pricing Calculator?
The official AWS Pricing Calculator is the right tool for a detailed, line-by-line quote. It is also built for people who already know AWS: you pick each service from a catalog of hundreds, then answer a long list of settings for each one, from tenancy and pricing model to IOPS and request tiers.
This calculator asks a few plain questions per service instead, for the seven services most apps run on: servers (EC2 with EBS disks), serverless functions (Lambda), file storage (S3), PostgreSQL (RDS), NoSQL (DynamoDB), data transfer out and CloudFront. It applies the always-free allowances automatically, shows the arithmetic behind every line, and prices the same workload on Google Cloud, Azure and Cloudflare so you can see whether AWS is the right home for it.
Use the AWS Pricing Calculator when you need reserved capacity, Savings Plans or services outside these seven. Use this one to get a reliable monthly number in a minute.
How much does AWS cost per month?
Here is what four of the presets cost on AWS in each of the 12 regions, with on-demand list prices and the always-free allowances applied:
| Region | Small SaaS | Mobile app backend | Static site + API | Media and downloads |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US East | $304.15 | $84.63 | $3.50 | $1,052.80 |
| US West | $304.15 | $84.63 | $3.50 | $1,052.80 |
| Canada | $335.85 | $88.31 | $3.76 | $1,067.30 |
| Brazil (São Paulo) | $451.27 | $115.08 | $4.84 | $1,752.30 |
| Ireland | $335.48 | $86.42 | $3.62 | $1,052.80 |
| UK (London) | $349.27 | $88.48 | $3.76 | $1,060.30 |
| Germany (Frankfurt) | $360.18 | $89.43 | $3.83 | $1,063.80 |
| India | $370.25 | $90.89 | $3.67 | $1,253.87 |
| Singapore | $395.51 | $93.03 | $3.67 | $1,359.80 |
| Japan (Tokyo) | $400.15 | $90.68 | $3.58 | $1,297.40 |
| South Korea (Seoul) | $391.36 | $91.51 | $3.47 | $1,414.20 |
| Australia (Sydney) | $395.81 | $93.63 | $3.80 | $1,304.90 |
A single always-on m6i.large (2 vCPU, 8 GB) costs $70.08 a month in N. Virginia before its disk; a t3.micro costs $7.59. For the Small SaaS preset, US East is the cheapest region and Brazil (São Paulo) the most expensive.
How much does an EC2 instance cost per month?
On-demand Linux prices in US East (N. Virginia) for a 730-hour month, before the EBS disk (gp3 at $0.08 per GB-month):
| Instance | vCPU / memory | Per hour | Per month |
|---|---|---|---|
| t3.micro | 2 vCPU, 1 GB | $0.0104 | $7.59 |
| t3.medium | 2 vCPU, 4 GB | $0.0416 | $30.37 |
| m6i.large | 2 vCPU, 8 GB | $0.096 | $70.08 |
| m6i.xlarge | 4 vCPU, 16 GB | $0.192 | $140.16 |
| m6i.2xlarge | 8 vCPU, 32 GB | $0.384 | $280.32 |
The t3 sizes are burstable: they suit light or spiky workloads and build up CPU credits while idle. The m6i sizes give steady, full-time CPU. Savings Plans and Reserved Instances lower these prices in exchange for a 1- or 3-year commitment.
AWS pricing by region: EC2, EBS, S3, RDS, DynamoDB and egress
These are the main unit prices, read from the AWS Price List on October 14, 2026:
| Region | EC2 m6i.large /h | EBS gp3 /GB-mo | S3 /GB-mo | RDS db.m6i.large /h | DynamoDB reads /M | Egress /GB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US East | $0.096 | $0.08 | $0.023 | $0.178 | $0.125 | $0.09 |
| US West | $0.096 | $0.08 | $0.023 | $0.178 | $0.125 | $0.09 |
| Canada | $0.107 | $0.088 | $0.025 | $0.196 | $0.1375 | $0.09 |
| Brazil (São Paulo) | $0.153 | $0.152 | $0.0405 | $0.233 | $0.1875 | $0.15 |
| Ireland | $0.107 | $0.088 | $0.023 | $0.197 | $0.1415 | $0.09 |
| UK (London) | $0.111 | $0.0928 | $0.024 | $0.206 | $0.1487 | $0.09 |
| Germany (Frankfurt) | $0.115 | $0.0952 | $0.0245 | $0.212 | $0.1525 | $0.09 |
| India | $0.101 | $0.0912 | $0.025 | $0.253 | $0.1425 | $0.1093 |
| Singapore | $0.12 | $0.096 | $0.025 | $0.247 | $0.1425 | $0.12 |
| Japan (Tokyo) | $0.124 | $0.096 | $0.025 | $0.247 | $0.1425 | $0.114 |
| South Korea (Seoul) | $0.118 | $0.0912 | $0.025 | $0.247 | $0.1355 | $0.126 |
| Australia (Sydney) | $0.12 | $0.096 | $0.025 | $0.247 | $0.1425 | $0.114 |
A few details that change real bills:
- gp3 disks include 3,000 IOPS and 125 MiB/s per volume at no extra charge.
- RDS Multi-AZ uses AWS's listed Multi-AZ price, which is not always exactly double the single-AZ price.
- Data transfer out includes 100 GB free each month, shared across all services and regions in your account.
- CloudFront includes 1 TB and 10 million requests free each month, so serving S3 files through CloudFront is often cheaper than serving them directly.
What does the AWS Free Tier include in 2026?
AWS changed its Free Tier for new accounts on July 15, 2025. New customers now choose a Free plan or a Paid plan and receive $100 in credits at sign-up, plus up to $100 more for trying a few services. The Free plan lasts up to 6 months or until the credits run out. The old 12-month free tier (750 hours of a micro instance, 5 GB of S3 and so on) continues only for accounts that already had it.
Some usage stays free every month, for every account, and the calculator applies it:
- Lambda: 1 million requests and 400,000 GB-seconds of compute
- DynamoDB: 25 GB of table storage
- Data transfer out: 100 GB to the internet
- CloudFront: 1 TB of data and 10 million requests
EC2, EBS, S3 and RDS have no always-free usage, so the calculator charges them in full. Credits are left out on purpose: they run out, and your architecture should still make sense when they do.
How can I lower my AWS bill?
Start with the changes that need no new architecture:
- Rightsize servers. Many instances are sized for a peak that never comes. Drop one size and watch your metrics for a week.
- Stop what you do not use. A stopped EC2 instance stops billing for compute, though its EBS volume still costs $0.08 per GB-month. Schedule test environments to shut down at night.
- Commit to what is steady. Savings Plans and Reserved Instances cut the hourly price for a 1- or 3-year term; only commit to the baseline you are sure of.
- Put a CDN in front of downloads. CloudFront's free terabyte and lower per-GB price beat serving files straight from S3 or EC2.
- Move spiky work to Lambda. Jobs that run a few minutes an hour cost far less as functions than as always-on servers.
The calculator makes each of these concrete: change one number and see the monthly difference.
How does AWS compare with Google Cloud, Azure and Cloudflare?
Each comparison prices both clouds at three usage levels in all 12 regions and compares their features from official documentation.
- [AWS vs Google Cloud](/tools/cloud-pricing/aws-vs-google-cloud): Google's automatic sustained use discount lowers always-on server costs, while AWS charges less for data sent to the internet and for serverless and NoSQL at app scale.
- [AWS vs Azure](/tools/cloud-pricing/aws-vs-azure): AWS and Azure list the same hourly price for general-purpose m6i and Dsv5 servers, so disks, egress, NoSQL and databases decide the total.
- [AWS vs Cloudflare](/tools/cloud-pricing/aws-vs-cloudflare): Cloudflare charges no egress fees and bills Workers for CPU time only, while AWS offers a far wider range of services, including servers.
Service by service: Amazon EC2 vs Compute Engine · Amazon EC2 vs Azure Virtual Machines · AWS Lambda vs Cloudflare Workers · AWS Lambda vs Google Cloud Run · AWS Lambda vs Azure Functions · Amazon S3 vs Cloudflare R2 · Amazon S3 vs Google Cloud Storage · Amazon S3 vs Azure Blob Storage · Amazon RDS vs Google Cloud SQL · Amazon RDS vs Azure Database for PostgreSQL · Amazon DynamoDB vs Firestore · Amazon DynamoDB vs Azure Cosmos DB · Amazon CloudFront vs Cloudflare CDN.
Where do these prices come from?
Every number comes from the provider's own published price list, read on October 14, 2026: the AWS Price List files, the Azure Retail Prices API, Google Cloud's pricing pages and Cloudflare's pricing documentation. Nothing is scraped from third-party sites, and each value was checked against a second official source where one exists.
- AWS: Amazon EC2 On-Demand pricing · AWS Lambda pricing · Amazon S3 pricing · Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL pricing · Amazon DynamoDB pricing · EC2 data transfer pricing · Amazon CloudFront pricing
- Google Cloud: Compute Engine VM pricing · Cloud Run pricing · Cloud Storage pricing · Cloud SQL pricing · Firestore pricing · Network (egress) pricing · Cloud CDN pricing
- Azure: Linux Virtual Machines pricing · Azure Functions pricing · Blob Storage pricing · Azure Database for PostgreSQL pricing · Cosmos DB serverless pricing · Bandwidth pricing · Azure Front Door pricing
- Cloudflare: Containers pricing · Workers pricing · R2 pricing · D1 pricing · Workers KV pricing · Cloudflare plans
Prices are in US dollars, on-demand, for Linux, with no commitments. Every figure on this page is generated from the same price snapshot as the calculator, and automated tests check each claim whenever the prices change. A month is 730 hours and 1 TB is 1,024 GB. Providers change prices from time to time, so for a purchase decision confirm the final figure in the provider's console.
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