Aleph Cloud vs AWS

Up to 67% cheaper than Amazon Web Services (AWS EC2), with storage included and decentralization built in.

Start at $0.0143/h

TL;DR

AWS is the world's largest cloud and offers hundreds of managed services, but it's also the most expensive. For raw compute (VPS/EC2), Aleph Cloud delivers identical specs at up to 67% lower cost — and adds decentralization, censorship resistance, and crypto-native payments that AWS cannot match.

Aleph Cloud vs AWS: pricing across 3 tiers

All prices are list, on-demand, with storage normalized. Tiers marked with * indicate the competitor doesn't offer an exact match — you pay for the next tier up.

Tier Aleph Cloud AWS You save
2 vCPU / 4 GB / 40 GB 🛡 Aleph Cloud VPS 2-core $20.81/mo $20.81 compute · included storage AWS t3.medium $33.57/mo $30.37 compute · $3.20 (gp3) storage −38%
4 vCPU / 8 GB / 80 GB 🛡 Aleph Cloud VPS 4-core $41.61/mo $41.61 compute · included storage AWS t3.xlarge (4c/16GB)* $127.87/mo $121.47 compute · $6.40 storage −67%
8 vCPU / 16 GB / 160 GB 🛡 Aleph Cloud VPS 8-core $83.22/mo $83.22 compute · included storage AWS t3.2xlarge (8c/32GB)* $255.74/mo $242.94 compute · $12.80 storage −67%

Why pick Aleph Cloud over AWS

Four reasons AWS customers switch to Aleph Cloud:

Up to 67% cheaper

Same vCPU, RAM, and SSD as t3 instances at a fraction of the price.

Storage included

AWS bills EBS storage separately. Aleph includes block storage in every plan.

Decentralized

No single corporation, government, or court order can take down your workload.

Crypto-native

Pay in $ALEPH (+20% bonus), USDC, or fiat. No KYC. Wallet-based authentication.

When AWS might be the right choice

We're not going to pretend AWS is always wrong. Here are the cases where staying with AWS makes sense:

  • You need deeply integrated managed services like RDS, DynamoDB, Bedrock, SageMaker, or EKS at hyperscaler scale
  • Your application requires 30+ availability zones across the world for sub-50ms latency to specific regions
  • You're already locked into AWS-specific services (Lambda, Step Functions, IAM roles) and migration cost outweighs savings

For everything else — standard Linux workloads, web apps, APIs, Docker, databases, AI inference — Aleph Cloud is the cheaper, more sovereign, and more flexible choice.

Migrating from AWS to Aleph Cloud

Most workloads migrate from AWS to Aleph Cloud in under an hour:

  1. Snapshot and export. Export your application code, environment variables, and database from your current AWS instance.
  2. Provision an Aleph Cloud VPS with comparable specs from app.aleph.cloud. Pick the same Linux distribution.
  3. Restore and verify. SSH in, install your dependencies, restore your data, point DNS, and you're live.

For complex workloads with managed services or custom networking, the Aleph Cloud documentation covers VPN setups, persistent volumes, and migration patterns.

Aleph Cloud vs AWS — FAQ

Is Aleph Cloud a drop-in replacement for AWS EC2?

For raw compute workloads — yes. Aleph Cloud VPS instances run standard Linux, accept SSH keys, and behave like any other VPS. Web servers, databases, Docker, Kubernetes, AI inference, and cron jobs all migrate cleanly. AWS-specific managed services (RDS, DynamoDB, Lambda) need to be replaced with self-hosted equivalents.

How do I migrate from AWS to Aleph Cloud?

Three steps: 1) Snapshot your EC2 instance and export the application code/data. 2) Provision a comparably-sized Aleph Cloud VPS from the console. 3) Restore your application using the same Linux distribution and config. For most stateless workloads this takes under an hour.

Does Aleph Cloud support Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD?

Yes. Aleph Cloud VPS instances are full Linux machines with root access, so any container runtime, orchestrator, or CI/CD agent works. Many users run k3s or Docker Compose directly on their Aleph instances.

What about data sovereignty and GDPR compared to AWS?

Aleph Cloud's CRN network includes nodes operated under European jurisdictions, and the network itself is decentralized — no single legal entity can be compelled to hand over data. This is a fundamentally stronger sovereignty guarantee than picking an AWS EU region, where Amazon remains the data controller.

Save up to 67% on cloud infrastructure

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