EC2 prices in South America (São Paulo)

South America (São Paulo) (sa-east-1) offers 668 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 59% higher than in N. Virginia.

Of the 668 types sold both here and in N. Virginia, 668 cost more here, 0 cost less and 0 cost the same. The largest premium is on the r4.xlarge, at 111% above the N. Virginia rate. 552 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 ($0.0524 per vCPU-hour), t4g.nano for general purpose ($0.00335 per vCPU-hour), r6g.medium for memory optimized ($0.0804 per vCPU-hour), i4g.2xlarge for storage optimized ($0.1233 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.