Iotamine vs AWS EC2
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One bill, not four separate ones.
EC2 compute, EBS storage, a public IPv4 address, and data transfer out are four separate AWS line items, each priced and billed on its own. Iotamine is one hourly rate that already includes all of it.
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Where the AWS bill actually comes from
EC2's sticker price is never the whole story
Four things that show up as separate charges on a real AWS invoice for a plain compute instance — not edge cases.
EC2 compute
The hourly instance rate — the number everyone quotes. On its own it's only part of the bill.
EBS storage
Boot and data disks are billed separately from compute — gp3 runs $0.08/GB-month, on top of the instance rate.
Public IPv4
Since February 2024, AWS charges $0.005/hour for every public IPv4 address — attached or idle. That's ~$3.65/month per address.
Data transfer out
The first 100 GB/month is free, then $0.09/GB up to 10 TB. Egress is metered and billed separately from everything else.
Sourced from AWS's own EC2, EBS, and VPC pricing pages, and AWS's Feb 2024 public-IPv4 pricing announcement.
Four real tiers, added up
From entry-level to high-spec
AWS's own T3 family, compute + EBS storage + a public IPv4 address added up at each size. AWS genuinely prices Mumbai higher than us-east-1, so the India comparison isn't just a currency conversion.
| Tier | Spec | AWS (monthly / hourly) | Iotamine (monthly / hourly) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cheapest | t3.small — 2 vCPU / 2 GB / 20 GB | ₹1,781₹2.44/hr | ₹918₹1.28/hr |
| Mid | t3.medium — 2 vCPU / 4 GB / 40 GB | ₹3,261₹4.47/hr | ₹1,015₹1.41/hr |
| Avg (popular) | t3.large — 2 vCPU / 8 GB / 80 GB | ₹6,222₹8.52/hr | ₹1,211₹1.68/hr |
| High | t3.xlarge — 4 vCPU / 16 GB / 160 GB | ₹12,143₹16.63/hr | ₹2,321₹3.22/hr |
AWS on-demand rates, ap-south-1 (Mumbai): compute (T3 family, priced ~7.7% above us-east-1) + $0.08/GB-mo gp3 EBS + $0.005/hr public IPv4, converted at ₹83.5/$1. Hourly figures above are the monthly total ÷ 730 (AWS's own standard hours-per-month basis) — a blended rate. Iotamine: live calculator rate, ÷720, New Delhi. Approximate — check AWS's own calculator for your exact figure.
How the t3.medium-matched number breaks down
Billed hourly, shown here as a monthly total — still one bill, broken down so nothing's hidden either way.
None of these four are fixed plans. They're just common reference points — on Iotamine, every VM is custom-built. Pick any vCPU, RAM, disk, and IP combination in the calculator below and deploy that exact spec, not the closest tier that happens to exist.
Full comparison
Iotamine vs EC2, feature by feature
| Feature | Iotamine | AWS EC2 |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | One all-inclusive hourly rate | Compute + storage + IP + egress, separately |
| Resource sizing | Pick any vCPU/RAM/disk/IP independently | Fixed instance families (t3, m5, c6i…) |
| Public IPv4 cost | Included in the hourly rate | $0.005/hr per address, even idle |
| Storage billing | Included in the hourly rate | Separate EBS line item, $0.08/GB-mo (gp3) |
| Data transfer | 5 TB bandwidth included | 100 GB free, then metered per GB |
| India region | New Delhi (node del-2) | Mumbai and Hyderabad |
| Billing granularity | Hourly, one number to track | Per-second, across 4+ separate services |
| Learning curve | Deploy in under 3 minutes | IAM, VPCs, security groups before your first instance |
To be fair to AWS: its regional footprint (30+ regions worldwide, including Mumbai and Hyderabad), managed-service catalog, and compliance certifications are genuinely larger than any single VPS provider's. If you need that breadth — or you're already deep in the AWS ecosystem — this isn't an argument to leave. It's for everyone paying EC2-level complexity for what's really just "a Linux box that needs to run reliably."
Pricing
Price your VM — everything included
Pick any vCPU, RAM, storage, and IP combination. What you see is the whole bill.
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These sliders show every value we support — what you can actually deploy right now depends on your account's own tier. See tiers & limits →
₹1089.58/mo
≈ ₹1.5133/hr · billed hourly, rounded up
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FAQ
Common questions
At a comparable 2 vCPU / 4 GB / 80 GB / 1 IP spec, yes — AWS's own published rates for t3.medium compute plus gp3 EBS storage plus a public IPv4 address add up to around $40/month, versus Iotamine's single all-inclusive hourly rate for the same spec. Use the calculator above for your own exact numbers.
AWS began charging $0.005/hour for every public IPv4 address — attached or idle — in February 2024, citing IPv4 scarcity. It's a real, published AWS policy, not a hidden fee, but it does mean the sticker price on an EC2 instance was never the full monthly cost.
No — AWS has a much larger catalog of managed services, regions, and compliance certifications. Iotamine focuses specifically on VPS compute, standalone storage, and IP addresses, priced simply and transparently. If you need AWS's full platform, this isn't a replacement for it.
If it runs on a standard Linux or Windows Server VM, yes — deploy a matching spec, move your data over, and repoint DNS. There's no AWS-specific lock-in to work around for a typical compute workload.
Any major Linux distribution, or Windows Server — BYOL (bring your own license), same as most cloud providers including AWS itself.
Every resource — vCPU, RAM, disk, IP — is metered hourly. Billing starts the moment you deploy and keeps running until you destroy it (stopping it isn't enough, since it still holds its reserved resources). All the hours across the month combine into a single invoice at month end: run a VM continuously from the 1st through the end of the month and that's roughly 720 hours billed as one line item, not separate charges. ₹800 signup bonus once KYC verification is complete.
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