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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/AAmazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides secure, resizable compute capacity in the cloud. Users can launch instances with a variety of OSs, load them with custom application environments, manage network access permissions, and run images on multiple systems.

    $0.01

    per IP address with a running instance per hour on a pro rata basis

    DigitalOcean

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/ADigitalOcean is an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) platform from the company of the same name headquartered in New York. It is known for its support of managed Kubernetes clusters and “droplets” feature.

    $5

    Starting Price Per Month

    Pricing
    Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)DigitalOcean
    Editions & Modules
    Data Transfer
    $0.00 - $0.09
    per GB
    On-Demand
    $0.0042 - $6.528
    per Hour
    EBS-Optimized Instances
    $0.005
    per IP address with a running instance per hour on a pro rata basis
    Carrier IP Addresses
    $0.005 - $0.10
    T4g Instances
    $0.04
    per vCPU-Hour Linux, RHEL, & SLES
    T2, T3 Instances
    $0.05 ($0.096)
    per vCPU-Hour Linux, RHEL, & SLES (Windows)
    1GB-16GB
    $5.00
    Starting Price Per Month
    8GB-160GB
    $60.00
    Starting Price Per Month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)DigitalOcean
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)DigitalOcean
    Considered Both Products
    Amazon AWS
    Chose Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
    DigitalOcean and Heroku are two other leading competitors to the EC2 in terms of the type of instances they offer.

    Digital Ocean:
    Incentivized
    Chose Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
    Using Digital Ocean's droplets was much easier and faster to set up and test, but we needed very specific and custom configurations and hardware for our use case, so we went ahead with using Amazon's EC2 instances.
    Incentivized
    Chose Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
    More reliable and flexible in options.
    Incentivized
    Chose Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
    - It's great as we can automate everything with API's and Terraform.
    - Cost wise very good as saves lot for Dev and QA etc.
    - Fasten the complete CI-CD pipeline and delivers product faster.
    Incentivized
    Chose Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
    I did not select AWS EC2 as my final choice of infrastructure. I picked Linode. Linode, Digital Ocean, AWS EC2 all provide the VPS infrastructure we need. But because I'm a small company, the cost is very important. I also didn't need the other AWS features. I also want to make …
    Incentivized
    Chose Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
    Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) for me is the easy choice for servers. There are so many tools out there, specifically terraform and packer, that allow easy integration with EC2. It is great for any sized company. I have also used Google and Digital Ocean, but my first …
    Incentivized
    Chose Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
    Migration from Shared/Dedicated to a VPS was the next step in scaling up our eCommerce business platform to our customer demands. Amazon Web Services uptime and speed really met our expectations, but the costs were unpredictable and ended up being too high for us. In hindsight, …
    Incentivized
    Chose Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
    We selected EC2 because of the maturity of the platform, the ease of deployment and the completeness of Amazon's vision. EC2 by itself, stacks up rather evenly with the competition. Where AWS as a whole excels is in the integration. While you may start with EC2 instances, …
    Incentivized
    Chose Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
    With twice the years of experience the army of features that AWS brings to the table, it's hard to go wrong with AWS. If you run windows server or strongly need a hybrid cloud partial-on-premises solution, then Azure might be a better fit for you. If lowest-possible-budget is …
    Incentivized
    Chose Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
    Less downtime. Better services. More performance. Better customer service
    Incentivized
    Chose Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
    I currently use GitHub pages and Azure for projects, in addition to EC2. I use GitHub pages for my blog because it's free and convenient, and because my blog is a static site (HTML and client-side JS only) so there's no need for me to pay for an EC2 instance to host a web …
    Incentivized
    DigitalOcean
    Chose DigitalOcean
    The target segment of DigitalOcean is application developers and small teams working in startups for easily configuring and deploying infrastructure in the cloud. We selected DigitalOcean for some of our usecases as it is cost effective and easy to integrate with compared to …
    Incentivized
    Chose DigitalOcean
    DigitalOcean is an easier and cheaper way to [set up] new machines. The UX is really good and it's easy to find what you need. Competition offer[s] a complicated way to manage machines and the cost is sometimes more than [...] double of what DigitalOcean offer[s]. However[,] …
    Incentivized
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)DigitalOcean
    Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
    Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and DigitalOcean
    Feature
    Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
    9.5
    21 Ratings
    DigitalOcean
    8.3
    33 Ratings
    Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime10.020 Ratings9.228 Ratings
    Dynamic scaling9.620 Ratings9.029 Ratings
    Elastic load balancing9.820 Ratings7.021 Ratings
    Pre-configured templates9.120 Ratings10.027 Ratings
    Monitoring tools9.120 Ratings10.032 Ratings
    Pre-defined machine images9.320 Ratings7.531 Ratings
    Operating system support9.620 Ratings8.331 Ratings
    Security controls9.820 Ratings9.029 Ratings
    Automation9.610 Ratings5.03 Ratings
    User Ratings
    Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)DigitalOcean
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.5
    (67 ratings)
    8.2
    (33 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    9.7
    (5 ratings)
    8.0
    (7 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.5
    (12 ratings)
    8.8
    (9 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)