Amazon EC2 vs Fly.io vs DigitalOcean

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61 signal

56 signal

76 signal

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

Easy, cheap deploys for small apps; the main downsides are past outages and hands-on database setup.

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

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