--- title: The Amazon premium | daily.dev description: A pricing comparison of virtual machines and object storage across major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) versus smaller alternatives (DigitalOcean,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-amazon-premium-07afw6kjg twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The Amazon premium | daily.dev og:description: A pricing comparison of virtual machines and object storage across major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) versus smaller alternatives (DigitalOcean,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-amazon-premium-07afw6kjg og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/07aFw6kjG.png og:image:alt: The Amazon premium og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # The Amazon premium **[Cal Paterson](https://daily.dev/sources/calpaterson)** · 7 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A pricing comparison of virtual machines and object storage across major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) versus smaller alternatives (DigitalOcean, Linode, OVH) in Western Europe. The data shows AWS charges $71/month for an 8GB/2-core VM while OVH charges just $27 for a comparable spec, and Linode/DigitalOcean offer 4-core machines for $40-48. For object storage, AWS charges $23/TB vs OVH's $11/TB. The author argues that big tech cloud providers charge a significant premium over smaller competitors even for commodity services, that complex pricing schemes hide costs, and that proprietary services like Lambda create vendor lock-in that likely worsens the value gap further. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [OVHcloud Raises Prices as AI Memory Demand Reprices Non-AI Infrastructure](https://daily.dev/posts/ovhcloud-raises-prices-as-ai-memory-demand-reprices-non-ai-infrastructure-5apiqjaxy) · InfoQ · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Your Cloud Bill Has Outgrown Its Value. 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