AWS Africa (Cape Town) af-south-1

South Africa, Africa. Costs below compare the same workload with us-east-1.

What the same workload costs here

Balanced basket, on-demand, per month

Line	Quantity	af-south-1 /mo	us-east-1 /mo	Difference
Compute	10 × m6g.xlarge, Linux on-demand	$1,483	$1,124	+31.9%
Database	2 × db.m6g.large, RDS PostgreSQL Single-AZ	$305	$232	+31.4%
S3 Standard	10 TB	$281	$236	+19.1%
Internet egress	5 TB per month	$788	$461	+71.1%
Total		$2,858	$2,053	+39.2%

How the basket works. It's a proxy for a bill, so use the lines to see what drives a difference.

126 of the 184 families sold in us-east-1 aren't sold here

Per GB, billed to the sender, so the two directions can differ

Sending from here, $/GB	Regions	Destinations
$0.147	35	ap-east-1, ap-east-2, ap-northeast-1, ap-northeast-2, ap-northeast-3, ap-south-1, ap-south-2, ap-southeast-1, ap-southeast-2, ap-southeast-3, ap-southeast-4, ap-southeast-5, ap-southeast-6, ap-southeast-7, ca-central-1, ca-west-1, eu-central-1, eu-central-2, eu-north-1, eu-south-1, eu-south-2, eu-west-1, eu-west-2, eu-west-3, il-central-1, me-central-1, me-south-1, mx-central-1, sa-east-1, us-east-1, us-east-2, us-gov-east-1, us-gov-west-1, us-west-1, us-west-2

Inbound is free, so what a pair costs depends on which side sends. Each region's page shows its own sending rates.

1 zone parented to this region

Zone	Type	EC2 types
af-south-1-los-1 Nigeria (Lagos)	Local Zone	12