EC2 prices in Europe (London)
eu-west-2
Europe (London) (eu-west-2) offers 753 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 17% higher than in N. Virginia.
Of the 752 types sold both here and in N. Virginia, 752 cost more here, 0 cost less and 0 cost the same. The largest premium is on the g7e.8xlarge, at 74% above the N. Virginia rate. 467 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 ($0.0404 per vCPU-hour), f2.6xlarge for fpga instances ($0.1072 per vCPU-hour), t4g.nano for general purpose ($0.00235 per vCPU-hour), r6g.medium for memory optimized ($0.0592 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.
Cheapest per vCPU, by family
| Family | Type | vCPU | Memory | $/hour | $/vCPU-h |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Compute optimized | c6g.xlarge | 4 | 8 GiB | $0.1616 | $0.0404 |
| FPGA Instances | f2.6xlarge | 24 | 256 GiB | $2.57 | $0.1072 |
| General purpose | t4g.nano | 2 | 0.5 GiB | $0.00470 | $0.00235 |
| Memory optimized | r6g.medium | 1 | 8 GiB | $0.0592 | $0.0592 |
| Storage optimized | i3.2xlarge | 8 | 61 GiB | $0.7240 | $0.0905 |