Europe: 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 in European regions.
Prices are approximate monthly costs for a single always-on container running 730 hours. All providers use their respective European regions. Prices sourced from public pricing pages as of April 2026 and may vary.
Bahriya
Falkenstein, Germany
Compute (1 vCPU)
1000m at $0.75/50m (standard region)
Memory (2 GB)
$5.00/GB (standard region)
TLS certificates
Included (Let's Encrypt, auto-renewed)
Egress (1 TB)
1 TB included per CPU core (fair usage)
Load balancer / ingress
Included (ingress per container)
Time to deploy: ~2 minutes
Console or single API call. DNS, TLS, and ingress provisioned automatically.
AWS ECS (Fargate)
eu-central-1 (Frankfurt)
Compute (1 vCPU)
$0.04499/vCPU-hour × 730h
Memory (2 GB)
$0.004938/GB-hour × 2 × 730h
DNS (Route 53)
$0.50/hosted zone
TLS (ACM)
Free with ALB
Egress (1 TB)
First 10 GB free, then $0.09/GB for next 9.99 TB
Load balancer (ALB)
~$18.40 base + ~$6.42 LCU-hours (EU pricing)
Time to deploy: 15–45 minutes
Requires VPC, subnets, security groups, task definitions, service, ALB, target group, Route 53 record, and ACM certificate.
Azure Container Apps
West Europe (Netherlands)
Compute (1 vCPU)
$0.066/vCPU-hour × 730h
Memory (2 GB)
$0.0044/GB-hour × 2 × 730h
DNS (Azure DNS)
$0.50/zone + $0.40/M queries
TLS (managed)
Free managed certificates
Egress (1 TB)
First 5 GB free, then tiered ($0.087–$0.05/GB)
Load balancer
Built-in with Container Apps (Envoy)
Time to deploy: 10–30 minutes
Requires resource group, Container Apps environment, log analytics workspace, DNS zone, and container app resource.
Google Cloud Run
europe-west1 (Belgium)
Compute (1 vCPU)
$0.04678/vCPU-hour × 730h (always allocated)
Memory (2 GB)
$0.005/GB-hour × 2 × 730h
DNS (Cloud DNS)
$0.20/zone
TLS (managed)
Free managed certificates
Egress (1 TB)
First 1 GB free, then $0.12–$0.08/GB (tiered)
Load balancer
Built-in with Cloud Run
Time to deploy: 5–15 minutes
Requires project setup, artifact registry, Cloud Run service, custom domain mapping, and DNS configuration.
Key differences
- Bahriya's European pricing is significantly lower. Standard-region pricing in Falkenstein comes in at $25.00/month — roughly 5–6× less than the equivalent hyperscaler setup. This gap is driven by included egress, load balancing, and simpler pricing units.
- Egress costs dominate hyperscaler bills. AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud all charge $0.05–$0.12/GB for outbound data. With 1 TB of egress, this adds $80–$113/month. Bahriya includes 1 TB of egress per CPU core booked at no additional cost, subject to fair usage policy.
- No ALB or gateway surcharge. AWS ECS requires a separate Application Load Balancer costing ~$25/month in EU regions. Bahriya includes ingress, automatic TLS, and per-region DNS with every container.
- Deployment complexity varies significantly. A new ECS deployment involves 8+ distinct AWS resources. Bahriya deploys a production-ready container from a single form or API call in under 2 minutes.
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