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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 Droplets

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/ADigitalOcean's Droplets is designed to help the user spin up a virtual machine in just 55 seconds. Standard, General Purpose, CPU-Optimized, or Memory-Optimized configurations provide flexibility to build, test, and grow an app from startup to scale.

    $4

    per month

    Pricing
    Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)DigitalOcean Droplets
    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)
    Basic
    $4
    per month
    CPU-Optimized
    $42
    per month
    General Purpose
    $63
    per month
    Memory-Optimized
    $84
    per month
    Storage-Optimized
    $131
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)DigitalOcean Droplets
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Pricing for DigitalOcean Droplets varies depending on the size of the virtual environment and the associated data needs.
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    Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)DigitalOcean Droplets
    Considered Both Products
    Amazon AWS
    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)
    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
    DigitalOcean
    Chose DigitalOcean Droplets
    Vultr had better performance in some instances but overall the dashboard was a mess to use a lot of times. When you zoom out from server performance and price, DigitalOcean offered more useful features, and the API was more consistent in some of the use cases we needed.
    Incentivized
    Chose DigitalOcean Droplets
    Cost is much lesser
    Interface is very easy to use
    Documentation is readily available for most of the usecases.
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
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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 Droplets
    Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
    Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and DigitalOcean Droplets
    Feature
    Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
    9.5
    21 Ratings
    DigitalOcean Droplets
    -
    Ratings
    Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime10.020 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dynamic scaling9.620 Ratings00 Ratings
    Elastic load balancing9.820 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pre-configured templates9.120 Ratings00 Ratings
    Monitoring tools9.120 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pre-defined machine images9.320 Ratings00 Ratings
    Operating system support9.620 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security controls9.820 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automation9.610 Ratings00 Ratings
    User Ratings
    Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)DigitalOcean Droplets
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.5
    (67 ratings)
    9.9
    (7 ratings)
    Usability
    9.7
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.5
    (12 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)