Amazon EC2 vs Cloudways  vs DigitalOcean

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Amazon EC2

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Cloudways

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DigitalOcean

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Pros of Amazon EC2
Pros of Cloudways
Pros of DigitalOcean
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    Quick and reliable cloud servers
  • 515
    Scalability
  • 393
    Easy management
  • 277
    Low cost
  • 271
    Auto-scaling
  • 89
    Market leader
  • 80
    Backed by amazon
  • 79
    Reliable
  • 67
    Free tier
  • 58
    Easy management, scalability
  • 13
    Flexible
  • 10
    Easy to Start
  • 9
    Widely used
  • 9
    Web-scale
  • 9
    Elastic
  • 7
    Node.js API
  • 5
    Industry Standard
  • 4
    Lots of configuration options
  • 2
    GPU instances
  • 1
    Simpler to understand and learn
  • 1
    Extremely simple to use
  • 1
    Amazing for individuals
  • 1
    All the Open Source CLI tools you could want.
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    • 560
      Great value for money
    • 364
      Simple dashboard
    • 362
      Good pricing
    • 300
      Ssds
    • 250
      Nice ui
    • 191
      Easy configuration
    • 156
      Great documentation
    • 138
      Ssh access
    • 135
      Great community
    • 24
      Ubuntu
    • 13
      Docker
    • 12
      IPv6 support
    • 10
      Private networking
    • 8
      99.99% uptime SLA
    • 7
      Simple API
    • 7
      Great tutorials
    • 6
      55 Second Provisioning
    • 5
      One Click Applications
    • 4
      Dokku
    • 4
      LAMP
    • 4
      Debian
    • 4
      CoreOS
    • 4
      Node.js
    • 3
      1Gb/sec Servers
    • 3
      Word Press
    • 3
      Mean
    • 3
      LEMP
    • 3
      Simple Control Panel
    • 3
      Ghost
    • 2
      Runs CoreOS
    • 2
      Quick and no nonsense service
    • 2
      Django
    • 2
      Good Tutorials
    • 2
      Speed
    • 2
      Ruby on Rails
    • 2
      GitLab
    • 2
      Hex Core machines with dedicated ECC Ram and RAID SSD s
    • 1
      CentOS
    • 1
      Spaces
    • 1
      KVM Virtualization
    • 1
      Amazing Hardware
    • 1
      Transfer Globally
    • 1
      Fedora
    • 1
      FreeBSD
    • 1
      Drupal
    • 1
      FreeBSD Amp
    • 1
      Magento
    • 1
      ownCloud
    • 1
      RedMine
    • 1
      My go to server provider
    • 1
      Ease and simplicity
    • 1
      Nice
    • 1
      Find it superfitting with my requirements (SSD, ssh.
    • 1
      Easy Setup
    • 1
      Cheap
    • 1
      Static IP
    • 1
      It's the easiest to get started for small projects
    • 1
      Automatic Backup
    • 1
      Great support
    • 1
      Quick and easy to set up
    • 1
      Servers on demand - literally
    • 1
      Reliability
    • 0
      Variety of services
    • 0
      Managed Kubernetes

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    Cons of Amazon EC2
    Cons of Cloudways
    Cons of DigitalOcean
    • 14
      Ui could use a lot of work
    • 6
      High learning curve when compared to PaaS
    • 3
      Extremely poor CPU performance
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      • 3
        No live support chat
      • 3
        Pricing

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      What is Amazon EC2?

      It is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers.

      What is Cloudways ?

      A platform that facilitates choice, simplicity and performance. All this is backed by caring expert support so that you stay focused on what you do best, win as an individual and succeed as a business.

      What is DigitalOcean?

      We take the complexities out of cloud hosting by offering blazing fast, on-demand SSD cloud servers, straightforward pricing, a simple API, and an easy-to-use control panel.

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      What are some alternatives to Amazon EC2, Cloudways , and DigitalOcean?
      Amazon LightSail
      Everything you need to jumpstart your project on AWS—compute, storage, and networking—for a low, predictable price. Launch a virtual private server with just a few clicks.
      Amazon S3
      Amazon Simple Storage Service provides a fully redundant data storage infrastructure for storing and retrieving any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web
      Amazon EC2 Container Service
      Amazon EC2 Container Service lets you launch and stop container-enabled applications with simple API calls, allows you to query the state of your cluster from a centralized service, and gives you access to many familiar Amazon EC2 features like security groups, EBS volumes and IAM roles.
      Beanstalk
      A single process to commit code, review with the team, and deploy the final result to your customers.
      NGINX
      nginx [engine x] is an HTTP and reverse proxy server, as well as a mail proxy server, written by Igor Sysoev. According to Netcraft nginx served or proxied 30.46% of the top million busiest sites in Jan 2018.
      See all alternatives