Changelog

• Chili Central, the cheapest region in South America

• Austria East, It is placed roughly on par with other Western and Central European regions, likely intended for GDPR-sensitive or government customers.

• Belgium Central, Average price at the same level as Austria East.

• Malaysia West, could be a good replacement, being about 10% cheaper than the Singapore (Southeast Asia) region and located nearby.

Pricing for Red Hat Enterprise, Red Hat Enterprise with HA, Ubuntu Pro, and SUSE Linux with Support has been added to the website, API, and batch exports as additional attributes.

We added price comparison across cloud providers when viewing similar instances in other providers, based on the nearest region. We also take currency exchange rates into account, since Azure uses a semi-fixed exchange rate.

In the example above, Standard_ND96isr_H100_v5 has an alternative - p5-48xlarge which is 44% cheaper on AWS in nearly the same geographic location (us-east-1). With a same amount 8x H100 GPUs and GPU memory.

All API endpoints now include a cloudProvider parameter and return extended data - for example, from /aws/ec2/instances/{instance_type}/similar available here.

{
  "Status": "ok",
  "ExecutionTimeMilliseconds": 121,
  "Data": {
    "Currency": "USD",
    "Region": "us-east-1",
    "Tenancy": "Shared",
    "OperatingSystem": "Linux",
    "PreInstalledSoftware": "",
    "BringYourOwnLicense": false,
    "PaymentType": "OnDemand",
    "CloudProvider": "Azure",
    "SourceInstance": {
      "InstanceType": "c5ad.4xlarge",
      "Processor": "AMD EPYC 7R32 @ 3.3 GHz",
      "ProcessorArchitecture": "x86_64",
      "ProcessorVCPUCount": 16,
      "MemorySizeInMB": 32768,
      "GPUName": null,
      "GPUCount": 0,
      "GPUTotalMemoryInMB": null
    },
    "SourcePrice": 0.688,
    "Items": [
      {
        "InstanceType": "Standard_D16lds_v5",
        "MemorySizeInMB": 32768,
        "ProcessorVCPUCount": 16,
        "Processor": "",
        "ProcessorArchitecture": "x64",
        "GPUName": "",
        "PriceDiff": 11.627906976744198,
        "TargetPrice": 0.768,
        "TargetRegion": "eastus",
        "TargetRegionLocation": "East US",
        "TargetDistance": 275.61
      },

We’ve added new services for AWS:
- SageMaker instances
- ElastiCache instances

Similar to other services, you can now compare instances for these services across regions, against each other, analyze various discount plans, and quickly check their specifications.

We’ve added new services for AWS:
- OpenSearch instances
- Redshift instances

Similar to other services, you can now compare instances for these services across regions, against each other, analyze various discount plans, and quickly check their specifications.

I’ve added sorting and grouping by geography based on average price per region. This makes it easier to find the next cheapest region within the same geography — for example, within America or Europe.

A few updates we've worked on over the past month that may not be immediately visible from the outside:

• With the growing volume of data and increasing number of users, we’ve upgraded our database capacity and moved to new ARM-based instances (V6 generation) which are performing great so far. This should improve both speed and reliability.

• We've migrated https://developer.cloudprice.net to a new version with a more streamlined and intuitive UI.

• We also fixed an annoying issue where browsers would sometimes request a certificate popup, even though it was optional.

• Azure Indonesia Region

• Azure New Zealand North Region