Azure vs AWS Cost - drewwbikk/capstone GitHub Wiki

For my environment, I would be using Amazon EC2 Instances or Azure On-Demand VMs. For basic instances, both Linux and Windows, below is a table of a price comparison.

Instance Parameters	Azure VM Type	Azure Per-Hour Price	AWS VM Type	AWS Per-Hour Price
Linux / General Purpose / 4 CPUs / 16GB Memory	Bs Series	$0.166	t2 Series	$0.1856
Linux / Compute Optimized / 4 CPUs / 8 GB Memory	Fsv2 Series	$0.169	c5 Series	$0.17
Linux / Memory Optimized / 4 CPUs / 32 GB Memory	Eav4 Series	$0.252	r5 Series	$0.252
Windows / General Purpose / 4 CPUs / 16 GB Memory	Bs Series	$0.166	t2 Series	$0.2266
Windows / Compute Optimized / 4 CPUs / 8 GB Memory	Fsv2 Series	$0.169	c5 Series	$0.354
Windows / Memory Optimized / 4 CPUs / 32 GB Memory	Eav4 Series	$0.252	r5 Series	$0.436

For reserved instances, each provider provides a discount for 1-year and 3-year reserved instances.

For 1-year reserved instances In all categories, AWS and Azure provide a 40-42% discount on the per-hour rate for instances.

For 3-year reserved instances In all categories, AWS and Azure provide a 61-64% discount on the per-hour rate for instances.