Multi-Cloud FinOps - Estimate Costs for AWS, Azure, GCP by Region | Federico Calò
Calculate and compare cloud compute costs on AWS, Azure, and GCP by region, vCPU, and monthly usage hours. Estimated Q2 2026 prices [ASSUMED]. One-click multi-provider comparison.
The FinOps (Financial Operations) is the discipline that unites engineering, finance, and business to maximize the value of cloud spending. A common mistake is to purchase on-demand resources without comparing providers and regions: the cost difference between AWS eu-west-1, Azure westeurope, and GCP europe-west1 for the same workload can vary by 10–20% even before applying reserved instances or savings plans.
This calculator uses estimated public prices [ASSUMED] for general-purpose Linux on-demand instances (AWS m6i, Azure D-series v5, GCP n2-standard) and calculates the monthly cost as price/vCPU/h × number of vCPUs × hours/month. The annual cost is the projected monthly cost × 12. The multi-provider comparison shows the most economical provider for the selected profile in their respective EU reference regions.
The displayed prices are for reference only [ASSUMED Q2 2026] and do not include storage, data egress, software licenses, managed services, or enterprise discounts. Before making budget decisions, always verify with official pricing calculators.
Reference Prices [ASSUMED]: AWS ec2pricing, Azure VM Calculator, GCP Compute Engine pricing - general-purpose Linux instances on-demand, EU regions, Q2 2026.
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Practical example - SaaS startup: 8 vCPUs, 730h/month
A SaaS startup with a Node.js backend on 2 instances of 4 vCPUs each (8 vCPUs total) running 24/7 (730h/month): on AWS eu-west-1 it costs about $295/month; on Azure westeurope about $296/month; on GCP europe-west1 about $276/month. Switching to reserved instances (3 years) would cut the cost by about 50% across all three providers. [Values are ASSUMED based on Q2 2026 pricing and are purely indicative.]
Frequently Asked Questions
Are these prices accurate?
Prices are indicative [ASSUMED] based on Q2 2026 public on-demand rates for general-purpose Linux instances. Actual costs depend on instance type, storage, network egress, savings plans, reserved instances, and negotiated discounts. Always verify on official pricing calculators (aws.amazon.com/pricing, azure.microsoft.com, cloud.google.com) before budget decisions.
What are vCPUs?
A vCPU (virtual CPU) is a virtual unit of computing capacity in a cloud instance. It typically corresponds to a hardware thread of a physical processor. The number of vCPUs chosen depends on the workload: light web applications (2-4 vCPUs), batch workloads (8-32 vCPUs), HPC and ML (64-512+ vCPUs).
How do I choose the cloud region?
The choice of region depends on: latency to end users (geographically closer regions), data residency requirements (GDPR, NIS2 mandate data in EU for many European companies), service availability (not all services are available in every region), and price (EU and US-East regions tend to be less expensive than Asia-Pacific regions).
What is FinOps?
FinOps (Financial Operations) is a business discipline and culture that promotes shared responsibility for cloud costs among engineering, finance, and business teams. The goal is to maximize business value from cloud spending through visibility (chargeback/showback), optimization (rightsizing, reserved instances, spot), and governance (budget alerts, tagging, policy).
How to reduce cloud costs?
The main FinOps strategies are: (1) Reserved Instances or Savings Plans (30–60% discount vs on-demand for stable workloads); (2) Spot/Preemptible instances (60–90% discount for interruption-tolerant workloads); (3) Rightsizing (resizing over-provisioned instances); (4) Auto-scaling (scale based on actual load); (5) Multi-cloud arbitrage (distribute workloads to the cheapest provider per workload type).
Can I download a FinOps report?
Yes - after calculating the estimate, you can download the FinOps report in PDF. The report includes monthly/annual cost estimates, multi-provider comparisons, and personalized optimization recommendations. A valid email address is required.