Dual region: Bahriya vs AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud
Side-by-side monthly cost and deployment comparison for a single always-on container with 1 vCPU, 2 GB memory, and 1 TB egress deployed across two regions (US East + Europe).
Prices are approximate monthly costs for a single always-on container running 730 hours in two regions simultaneously. All providers use their respective US East and European regions. Prices sourced from public pricing pages as of April 2026 and may vary.
Bahriya
Virginia, USA + Falkenstein, Germany
Compute — Virginia (1 vCPU)
1000m at $0.75/50m (standard region)
Memory — Virginia (2 GB)
$5.00/GB (standard region)
Compute — Falkenstein (1 vCPU)
1000m at $0.75/50m (standard region)
Memory — Falkenstein (2 GB)
$5.00/GB (standard region)
DNS (round-robin)
Flat rate per container — routes traffic across both regions
TLS certificates
Included (Let's Encrypt, auto-renewed) per region
Egress (1 TB per region)
1 TB included per CPU core per region (fair usage)
Load balancer / ingress
Included (ingress per container per region)
Time to deploy: ~2 minutes
Console or single API call. Both regions, DNS round-robin, TLS, and ingress provisioned automatically.
AWS ECS (Fargate)
us-east-1 + eu-central-1 (Frankfurt)
Compute — us-east-1 (1 vCPU)
$0.04048/vCPU-hour × 730h
Memory — us-east-1 (2 GB)
$0.004445/GB-hour × 2 × 730h
Compute — eu-central-1 (1 vCPU)
$0.04499/vCPU-hour × 730h
Memory — eu-central-1 (2 GB)
$0.004938/GB-hour × 2 × 730h
DNS (Route 53)
$0.50/hosted zone × 2 zones
DNS latency routing
$0.50/routing policy × 2 regions
TLS (ACM)
Free with ALB (per region)
Egress (1 TB × 2 regions)
$0.09/GB × ~978 GB per region
Load balancer (ALB × 2)
us-east-1 ~$22.27 + eu-central-1 ~$24.82
Time to deploy: 30–60 minutes
Requires duplicate infrastructure per region: VPCs, subnets, security groups, task definitions, services, ALBs, target groups, Route 53 records with latency routing, and ACM certificates.
Azure Container Apps
East US + West Europe (Netherlands)
Compute — East US (1 vCPU)
$0.06/vCPU-hour × 730h
Memory — East US (2 GB)
$0.004/GB-hour × 2 × 730h
Compute — West Europe (1 vCPU)
$0.066/vCPU-hour × 730h
Memory — West Europe (2 GB)
$0.0044/GB-hour × 2 × 730h
DNS (Azure DNS)
$0.50/zone × 2 zones
Traffic Manager
$0.75/M DNS queries (performance routing)
TLS (managed)
Free managed certificates per region
Egress (1 TB × 2 regions)
Tiered ($0.087–$0.05/GB) per region
Load balancer
Built-in with Container Apps (Envoy) per region
Time to deploy: 20–45 minutes
Requires duplicate resource groups, Container Apps environments, log analytics workspaces per region, plus Traffic Manager profile for cross-region routing.
Google Cloud Run
us-east1 + europe-west1 (Belgium)
Compute — us-east1 (1 vCPU)
$0.04678/vCPU-hour × 730h (always allocated)
Memory — us-east1 (2 GB)
$0.005/GB-hour × 2 × 730h
Compute — europe-west1 (1 vCPU)
$0.04678/vCPU-hour × 730h (always allocated)
Memory — europe-west1 (2 GB)
$0.005/GB-hour × 2 × 730h
DNS (Cloud DNS)
$0.20/zone × 2 zones
TLS (managed)
Free managed certificates per region
Egress (1 TB × 2 regions)
$0.12–$0.08/GB (tiered) per region
Global load balancer
~$18.26 base + ~$2.91 per 10k req/s (Cloud Load Balancing)
Time to deploy: 15–30 minutes
Requires project setup, artifact registries per region, Cloud Run services per region, global load balancer, URL map, backend services, NEGs, and DNS configuration.
Key differences
- Multi-region cost gap widens dramatically. Bahriya's dual-region total of $52.50/month is 5–6× less than any hyperscaler equivalent. The gap grows because egress and load balancing costs double for hyperscalers, while Bahriya includes both.
- Egress doubles, and so does the pain. Running 1 TB of egress in two regions costs hyperscalers $161–$226/month. Bahriya includes 1 TB per CPU core per region at no additional cost, subject to fair usage policy.
- Cross-region routing is built in. Bahriya's DNS round-robin routes traffic across both regions for a flat $2.50/month. AWS requires Route 53 latency routing, Azure needs Traffic Manager, and Google Cloud needs a global load balancer — each adding cost and configuration complexity.
- Infrastructure duplication compounds complexity. Hyperscalers require duplicating most infrastructure per region: VPCs, load balancers, security groups, and service definitions. Bahriya deploys to both regions from a single API call.
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