We use many services on AWS (S3, ELB, RDS, RedShift...). The costs of the EC2 in...

user5994461 on Nov 19, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Google Cloud is 50% cheaper than AWS

We use many services on AWS (S3, ELB, RDS, RedShift...). The costs of the EC2 instances is > 70% of the total bill. It's in the same order for the other deployments I've seen.

The thing is, the AWS pricing strategy is global and most services are built on top of instances.