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Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) vs. Vultr

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Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

344 Reviews and Ratings

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    Overview
    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

    Vultr

    Score7 out of 10
    		N/AVultr is an independent cloud computing platform on a mission to provide businesses and developers around the world with unrivaled ease of use, price-to-performance, and global reach.

    $2.50

    per month

    Pricing
    Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)Vultr
    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)
    Block Storage
    $1
    per month
    Cloud Compute
    $2.50
    per month
    Object Storage
    $5
    per month
    Kubernetes Engine
    $10
    per month
    Load Balancers
    $10
    per month
    Managed Databases
    $15
    per month
    Optimized Cloud Compute
    $28
    per month
    Cloud GPU
    $90
    per month
    Bare Metal
    $120
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)Vultr
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Pricing is based on specifications chosen in each product category. Bandwidth is also included up to a certain amount per month.
    More Pricing Information
    Community Pulse
    Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)Vultr
    Considered Both Products
    Amazon AWS
    Michael Weisel
    Co-founder & Chief Technology Officer in Information Technology at Gold Lasso, Inc. (Information Technology & Services, 11-50 employees)
    Chose Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
    We tried a few other competitors on the web hosting side of our company and ultimately decided to go with AWS EC2 instances. AWS had the most flexibility, the most choices for different types of instances, a variety of Operating Systems, an incredible infrastructure across …
    Incentivized
    Vultr
    Verified User
    Chose Vultr
    Cost of bandwidth and network quality for us is what mattered.
    Incentivized
    David Collins
    App developer at Trilobite Solutions (Mining & Metals, 1-10 employees)
    Chose Vultr
    Vultr is much cheaper than AWS, and also simpler to set up and use
    Incentivized
    Verified User
    Chose Vultr
    Vultr has been a more cost effective solution in some areas. Compared to AWS EC2, Vultr has been a lot more cost effective for our environment. Vultr has the right vCPU, RAM, and storage for our needs. In the object storage space, Vultr has not been the best fit for our …
    Incentivized
    Hector Burciaga
    CEO in Corporate at Bimxperts International (Architecture & Planning, 11-50 employees)
    Chose Vultr
    Vultr offers the same services as all the major cloud providers however Vulr offers a clear pricing modeling with no hidden fees. This has been incisive in deciding which provider to go with. I have never encountered any downtime with their services Technically, Vultr has the …
    Incentivized
    Verified User
    Chose Vultr
    Digital ocean is not an option. I find digital ocean's platform to feel better polished (even if it is not actually). while Vultr has a lot of promise, and definitely delivers, it still feels like an upstart where digital ocean feels more established. this was fine for a while, …
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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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)Vultr
    Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
    Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Vultr
    Feature
    Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
    9.5
    21 Ratings
    Vultr
    2.8
    15 Ratings
    Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime10.020 Ratings2.914 Ratings
    Dynamic scaling9.620 Ratings2.512 Ratings
    Elastic load balancing9.820 Ratings2.711 Ratings
    Pre-configured templates9.120 Ratings2.813 Ratings
    Monitoring tools9.120 Ratings2.013 Ratings
    Pre-defined machine images9.320 Ratings2.814 Ratings
    Operating system support9.620 Ratings3.015 Ratings
    Security controls9.820 Ratings4.513 Ratings
    Automation9.610 Ratings2.212 Ratings
    User Ratings
    Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)Vultr
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.5
    (67 ratings)
    2.6
    (18 ratings)
    Usability
    9.7
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.5
    (12 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)