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Amazon Lightsail vs. DigitalOcean Droplets

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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Amazon Lightsail

    Score5.3 out of 10
    N/AAmazon Lightsail is a virtual private server (VPS) designed to present an easy-to-use cloud platform that offers everything needed to build an application or website, plus a cost-effective, monthly plan.

    $3.50

    per month

    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 LightsailDigitalOcean Droplets
    Editions & Modules
    512 MB Linux
    $3.50
    per month
    1 GB Linux
    $5.00
    per month
    2 GB Linux
    $10.00
    per month
    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 LightsailDigitalOcean 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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    Community Pulse
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    Considered Both Products
    Amazon AWS
    Chose Amazon Lightsail
    Linode and Digital Ocean are far more reliable than Amazon Lightsail. I would recommend against hosting any production applications in Lightsail. Even for prototyping, I would also suggest using the VPS provider of your choice for your production application because you can …
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Features
    Amazon LightsailDigitalOcean Droplets
    Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
    Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Amazon Lightsail and DigitalOcean Droplets
    Feature
    Amazon Lightsail
    9.1
    5 Ratings
    DigitalOcean Droplets
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    Ratings
    Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime8.95 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dynamic scaling9.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Elastic load balancing9.34 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pre-configured templates9.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Monitoring tools8.85 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pre-defined machine images8.95 Ratings00 Ratings
    Operating system support9.65 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security controls8.95 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automation9.64 Ratings00 Ratings
    User Ratings
    Amazon LightsailDigitalOcean Droplets
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.8
    (5 ratings)
    9.9
    (7 ratings)