
Cost Optimization & FinOpsPart 24
palaniappan p3 min
Amazon EC2 On-Demand Pricing: Instance Families, Regional Multipliers, and the Graviton Crossover (2026)
EC2 On-Demand is a matrix of family, size, OS, tenancy, and region. In us-east-1 (June 2026) a m7g.large Linux runs $0.0816/hr vs a g5.xlarge GPU at $1.006/hr. Graviton5 M9g/C9g now GA for new fleets.
