Pricing is yet another area where Google Compute Engine is superior. Automatic sustained use discounts[1], the ability to commit long term to a certain amount of cpus and memory and get a discount without any upfront cost[2]. Extended memory[3], basically you can craft a VM instance of any size. Need just 1 cpu but 32 GB of memory, no problem.

AWS on the other hand... A labyrinth of pricing tables, spot instances, EBS optimized, enhanced networking... Complexity.

[1] - https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/sustained-use-discount...

[2] - https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/signing-up-c...

[3] - https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/05/Compute-Engine-...

I've built this page since I often just want to pick a spot instance type that gives me biggest bang for the buck. Amazon's own pricing page is still very confusing, and ec2instances.info is great but it is a static website and adding spot prices there is nontrivial.

I've also fixed a few minor things that annoyed me, such as correct sorting by instance type (so that r3.16x goes after r3.4x) and added a mode to display spot savings vs on-demand.

Would appreciate any feedback!

There's also http://ec2instances.info which has RDS pricing as well.

Forgive me for a dumb question from someone who doesn't do cloud computing currently : the units are really $/GB/time period, yes? What is the time period? One hour? day? month?

Would be nice to see $/GB at the same time as absolute $