Amazon Web Services vs Netlify
Amazon Web Services and Netlify barely overlap — they compete in no category where both publish a comparable rate.
Category by category
Each provider's cheapest published option in each category, on the axis that category is billed on. A dash means they do not sell into it.
| Category | Amazon Web Services | Rate | Netlify | Rate | Cheaper |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CDN & edge delivery | AWS CloudFront | $0.085 | — | — | only one competes |
| Cloud compute & VPS | AWS EC2 | $0.042 | — | — | only one competes |
| GPU cloud | AWS EC2 P5 | $7.57 | — | — | only one competes |
| Object storage | AWS S3 | $0.023 | — | — | only one competes |
| Serverless functions | — | — | Netlify Functions | $19.00 | only one competes |
| Application platforms | — | — | Netlify | $9.00 | only one competes |
| Managed databases | AWS RDS for PostgreSQL | $12.40 | — | — | only one competes |
About each provider
Amazon Web Services
Headquartered in US · 7 priced services
The largest cloud provider by revenue, with the broadest service catalogue and the most complex pricing. Rates are rarely the cheapest on any single axis, and egress in particular is priced well above the market.
Netlify
Headquartered in US · 2 priced services
A frontend hosting platform with generous build tooling and the most expensive overage bandwidth of the major PaaS options.
Questions
- Is Amazon Web Services or Netlify cheaper in 2026?
- Amazon Web Services and Netlify barely overlap — they compete in no category where both publish a comparable rate. Picking a provider on an aggregate "cheaper" verdict is usually a mistake — what matters is which of them is cheaper in the categories you actually buy.
- What does Amazon Web Services offer that Netlify does not?
- In this dataset: CDN & edge delivery, Cloud compute & VPS, GPU cloud, Object storage, Managed databases. Netlify has no priced equivalent in those categories.
- What does Netlify offer that Amazon Web Services does not?
- In this dataset: Serverless functions, Application platforms. Amazon Web Services has no priced equivalent in those categories.
- Should I use both?
- Often the cheapest answer, and the table above shows where the seams are. Splitting workloads across providers costs you cross-provider data transfer and a second bill to reason about, so it pays off when the per-category gap is large and the traffic between them is small.