EC2 prices in Canada (Central)

Canada (Central) (ca-central-1) offers 734 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 10% higher than in N. Virginia.

Of the 734 types sold both here and in N. Virginia, 734 cost more here, 0 cost less and 0 cost the same. The largest premium is on the g3.8xlarge, at 24% above the N. Virginia rate. 486 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 c6g.xlarge for compute optimized ($0.0372 per vCPU-hour), f2.6xlarge for fpga instances ($0.0907 per vCPU-hour), t4g.nano for general purpose ($0.00230 per vCPU-hour), r6g.medium for memory optimized ($0.0552 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.