EC2 prices in Asia Pacific (Sydney)

Asia Pacific (Sydney) (ap-southeast-2) offers 850 of the current EC2 instance types we track. For types sold both here and in US East (N. Virginia), the median Linux on-demand price is 25% higher than in N. Virginia.

Of the 848 types sold both here and in N. Virginia, 848 cost more here, 0 cost less and 0 cost the same. The largest premium is on the p2.xlarge, at 71% above the N. Virginia rate. 370 current types sold elsewhere are not offered in this region at all, usually the newest or most specialised series.

The lowest price per vCPU in each family here comes from hpc6a.48xlarge for compute optimized ($0.0392 per vCPU-hour), f2.6xlarge for fpga instances ($0.0990 per vCPU-hour), t4g.nano for general purpose ($0.00265 per vCPU-hour), r6g.medium for memory optimized ($0.0604 per vCPU-hour). These are on-demand Linux rates; reserved instances and Savings Plans cut them further, and each instance page shows the reserved rates for this region alongside every other region.