Compared from 278 real customer reviews

Amazon EC2 vs DigitalOcean

Side by side from 278 real reviews. Every count is the same as on each service’s page.

How the signal works
The signal score

A score out of 100 for how well reviewed a product is. It rises with positive reviews and with how many there are; negative and mixed reviews take points off.

So a handful of glowing reviews can’t beat a product lots of people like. No sponsored placements.

67 signal

58 reviews

82 signal

220 reviews

In short

Users mostly praise Amazon EC2 for low cost, especially with spot instances or reserved capacity, and for steady uptime on long-running servers.

Most customers find it reliable, cheap and simple, often running droplets for years without problems.

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