Amazon EC2 vs Heroku vs DigitalOcean

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61 signal

52 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.

Users like Heroku for easy, quick deploys and for spinning up apps and test environments with little fuss.

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

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