# Elastic Cloud Pricing for Newbies

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-cloud-pricing-for-newbies/98270>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [August 24, 2017, 5:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-cloud-pricing-for-newbies/98270 "2017-08-24T17:19:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![TheAri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9bd4f/32.png) [@TheAri](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/TheAri)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2017, 5:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-cloud-pricing-for-newbies/98270/1 "2017-08-24T17:19:14Z")

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Hi folks, my company is making our first transitions to the cloud, with a view toward using Kibana, and so far we are struggling to make sense of pricing (without prior cloud experience). Can anyone please give an opinion on the relative pricing below--i.e. why is 'US-Medium' priced lower per unit than 'US-Small?' What are the underlying assumptions there?

[https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B01N6YCISK#product-description](https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B01N6YCISK#product-description)

US-Small (GB RAM per Hour) $0.077 / unit  
US-Medium (GB RAM per Hour) $0.041 / unit  
US-Large (GB RAM per Hour) $0.033 / unit

(Apologies if there was a better category for this question)

Thanks in advance!

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2017, 5:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-cloud-pricing-for-newbies/98270/2 "2017-09-21T17:27:04Z")

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