| Product | Rating | Most Used By | Product Summary | Starting Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Amazon Web Services | Score8.6 out of 10 | N/A | Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a subsidiary of Amazon that provides on-demand cloud computing services. With over 165 services offered, AWS services can provide users with a comprehensive suite of infrastructure and computing building blocks and tools. | $100 per month |
 DigitalOcean | Score8.9 out of 10 | N/A | DigitalOcean 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 |
| Amazon Web Services | DigitalOcean | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Editions & Modules |
|
| ||||||||||||||
| Offerings |
| |||||||||||||||
| Entry-level Setup Fee | No setup fee | No setup fee | ||||||||||||||
| Additional Details | AWS allows a “save when you commit” option that offers lower prices when you sign up for a 1- or 3- year term that includes an AWS service or category of services. | — | ||||||||||||||
| More Pricing Information | ||||||||||||||||
| Amazon Web Services | DigitalOcean | |
|---|---|---|
| Considered Both Products | Chose Amazon Web Services Amazon Web Services is much more mature than all of the cloud service providers out in the market. It has 300+ services that solve almost all of your cloud problems. Independently Invited by TrustRadius A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info Chose Amazon Web Services Incentivized Independently Invited by TrustRadius A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info Chose Amazon Web Services The flexibility and innovation are the keys. Amazon Web Services provides all the solutions I need in one [place]. With other providers I don't have enough flexibility to create my architecture of services as I need them. Only Amazon Web Services pre-configures services ready … Independently Invited by TrustRadius A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info | Chose DigitalOcean Amazon has a very complex UI and many products to offer. They haven't polished up their UI and it has a much greater learning curve compared to DigitalOcean. However, Amazon Web Services (AWS) does have more comprehensive cloud computing services, which forces some companies to … Independently Invited by TrustRadius A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info Chose DigitalOcean As I have said, DigitalOcean was slightly more expensive than something like HostGator, but the amount of customization and quality of service make it worth any difference. AWS was always a pain to set up and use, but DigitalOcean makes it cake. Independently Invited by TrustRadius A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info Chose DigitalOcean Initially we started using DigitalOcean due to their pricing point as we were in development phase. Slowly when we used it, we starting liking it a lot as it is very fast & easy to get started, compared to the other Cloud Providers we've used. Also they have blogs and … Independently Invited by TrustRadius A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info Chose DigitalOcean Vultr is a new player in the game. They don't advertise their hardware model and for that reason, people may not trust them. I have run few benchmarks on Vultr, they performed slightly better than DigitalOcean but they aren't trustworthy. Their transparency index is very low … Independently Invited by TrustRadius A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info Chose DigitalOcean AWS: Too complex to set things up. Period. Mediatemple: Great features, services and customer service. Prices are a bit high for what they offer. Linode: Outstanding features and customer support. Difficult to start with for novice users. Independently Invited by TrustRadius A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info Chose DigitalOcean It was the right balance of cost, ease of use, and support. Independently Invited by TrustRadius A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info |
| Key User Insights | ||
| Would buy again | ||
No answers on this topic | No answers on this topic | |
| Delivers good value for the price | ||
No answers on this topic | No answers on this topic | |
| Happy with the feature set | ||
No answers on this topic | No answers on this topic | |
| Lived up to sales and marketing promises | ||
No answers on this topic | No answers on this topic | |
| Implementation went as expected | ||
No answers on this topic | No answers on this topic | |
| Amazon Web Services | DigitalOcean | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) |
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Amazon Web Services | DigitalOcean | |
|---|---|---|
| Likelihood to Recommend | 9.0 | 8.2 |
| Likelihood to Renew | 9.4 | 9.0 |
| Usability | 8.5 | 8.0 |
| Availability | 9.0 | 10.0 |
| Performance | - | 9.0 |
| Support Rating | 7.2 | 8.8 |
| Online Training | 7.0 | - |
| Implementation Rating | 10.0 | - |
| Product Scalability | - | 10.0 |
