The Cheapest CUDA GPU on AWS Has an Arm CPU — and You Probably Want the Intel One

A deployment guide for Gemma 4 E2B compares the two cheapest CUDA GPU instances on AWS as of 2026-08-30. The analysis focuses on G5g, which pairs a T4G with a Graviton2 host on aarch64, and G4dn, which pairs a T4 with an Intel host on x86_64. Both utilize NVIDIA Turing silicon. To simplify the vLLM hosted deployment management, a suite of Python MCP tools was developed to evaluate which budget-friendly option is most effective for users.