Which is cheaper, Amazon EBS or Google Persistent Disk?

GCP is cheaper in 5 of 6 comparable categories, with an average price difference of 44.8%.

How do Amazon EBS and Google Persistent Disk compare for general purpose workloads?

For general purpose workloads: AWS: $849.72/mo, GCP: $876.00/mo. AWS is cheaper.

Updated May 21, 2026AWSGCP

Overall Winner

GCP

AWS Wins

GCP Wins

Ties

GCP wins 5 of 6 price comparisons, averaging 44.8% lower prices in categories where it leads.

Prices range from $0.2000/hr to $3.06/hr across comparable tiers.

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Best for General Purpose workloads

Comparing Amazon EBS and Google Persistent Disk across 6 equivalent tiers. On-demand hourly rates are shown in USD for the default region.

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Category	AWS Amazon EBS	GCP Google Persistent Disk	Diff	Cheapest
Compute Optimized - c7gn.4xlarge	$0.9984/hr c7gn.4xlarge ($728.83/mo)	$0.8979/hr 0141-0887-121B ($655.47/mo)	+10.1%	GCP
General Purpose - m8gb.4xlarge	$1.1640/hr m8gb.4xlarge ($849.72/mo)	$1.2000/hr 097F-10BC-11B9 ($876.00/mo)	+3.0%	AWS
HPC - hpc7g.4xlarge	$1.6832/hr hpc7g.4xlarge ($1,228.74/mo)	$1.6136/hr 0853-0C42-615B ($1,177.96/mo)	+4.1%	GCP
Storage Optimized - d3.4xlarge	$1.9980/hr d3.4xlarge ($1,458.54/mo)	$0.4800/hr 0640-26F8-5665 ($350.40/mo)	+76.0%	GCP
Memory Optimized - r8i.8xlarge	$2.2227/hr r8i.8xlarge ($1,622.59/mo)	$0.3990/hr 0810-E21D-8709 ($291.27/mo)	+82.0%	GCP
Accelerated Computing - p3.2xlarge	$3.0600/hr p3.2xlarge ($2,233.80/mo)	$0.2000/hr 0141-5268-AAA5 ($146.00/mo)	+93.5%	GCP