Amazon EC2 vs Amazon Lightsail vs DigitalOcean

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

Users like Amazon Lightsail as a simple, predictably priced host for WordPress and small apps, with several reporting long stable runs.

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

• great value7
• reliable6
• easy to use2

• great value8
• easy to use7
• reliable6

• reliable38
• great value23
• easy to use13

• outages8
• hidden fees3
• surprise bill3

• slow5
• hidden fees1
• poor support1

• poor support34
• outages9
• slow6