Amazon Web Services vs Northern Data Group
- GPUs
- 14 2
- Cheapest GPU
- $0.53/hr $2.60/hr
- Price wins
- 0/2 2/2
Northern Data Group is cheaper on all 2 GPUs both rent. Amazon Web Services carries 12 more GPUs.
Hyperscaler that rents GPU and custom accelerator instances on demand, reserved or spot, alongside a full catalogue of managed cloud services.
Best for: Teams already building on AWS services
Runs the Taiga Cloud GPU service and colocation in modular datacenters through its Ardent Data Centers arm.
Best for: GPU cloud plus colocation capacity
Price by GPU
The 2 GPUs both rent. Cheapest live rate per GPU-hour, most powerful first. The cheaper side is in purple.
| GPU | Amazon Web Services | Northern Data Group | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA H100 SXM5 80GB | $6.88/hr | $2.60/hr | 165% |
| NVIDIA H200 SXM 141GB | $7.91/hr | $3.00/hr | 164% |
Prices last checked: Amazon Web Services 4 Oct 2026, Northern Data Group 4 Oct 2026.
Only on one side
Only on Amazon Web Services 12
- NVIDIA B200 SXM 180GB $14.24
- NVIDIA B300 SXM 262GB $17.80
- NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition $3.36
- NVIDIA L40S 48GB $1.86
- NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80GB $3.43
- NVIDIA A100 SXM4 40GB $2.74
- NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell 32GB $2.52
- NVIDIA V100 SXM2 32GB $3.90
- NVIDIA V100 SXM2 16GB $3.06
- NVIDIA L4 24GB $0.80
- NVIDIA A10G 24GB $1.01
- NVIDIA T4 16GB $0.53
Only on Northern Data Group 0
Every GPU Northern Data Group rents is also on the other side.
Company facts
| Fact | Amazon Web Services | Northern Data Group |
|---|---|---|
| Headquarters |  Seattle, WA |  Frankfurt am Main, Germany |
| Type | Hyperscaler | GPU cloud |
| Founded | 2006 | n/a |
| Regions | n/a | 10 |
| GPUs priced | 14 | 2 |
| Fastest GPU | NVIDIA B200 SXM 180GB | NVIDIA H100 SXM5 80GB |
| Services | n/a | GPU cloud (Taiga Cloud), colocation and modular datacenters (Ardent Data Centers) |
Compliance
Frameworks each provider states it holds, linked to its own statement. Not published means we found no statement, not that the provider fails it. Check the scope with the provider.
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Questions
- What is the difference between Amazon Web Services and Northern Data Group?
- Amazon Web Services: Hyperscaler that rents GPU and custom accelerator instances on demand, reserved or spot, alongside a full catalogue of managed cloud services. Northern Data Group: Runs the Taiga Cloud GPU service and colocation in modular datacenters through its Ardent Data Centers arm.
- Is Amazon Web Services cheaper than Northern Data Group?
- Northern Data Group is cheaper on all 2 GPUs both rent. Amazon Web Services carries 12 more GPUs.
- How much does a NVIDIA H100 SXM5 80GB cost on Amazon Web Services and Northern Data Group?
- Amazon Web Services charges $6.88 per GPU-hour and Northern Data Group charges $2.60 per GPU-hour, the cheapest live rate on each.
- Which GPUs can I rent on both Amazon Web Services and Northern Data Group?
- 2 GPUs, including NVIDIA H100 SXM5 80GB, NVIDIA H200 SXM 141GB.
- How are these prices compared?
- Each figure is the cheapest live rate per GPU-hour for that GPU. We use on-demand pricing where a provider sells it and fall back to community or reserved terms, labelled, where that is all they sell. Spot capacity is left out because it can be reclaimed. Rates are refreshed by our daily ingest.
How we define a live price: methodology.
