Amazon EC2 vs Microsoft Azure vs Render

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

Customers say Render is easy to deploy to and praise a free plan and predictable pricing, which suits hobby projects and small apps.

• great value7
• reliable6
• easy to use2

• easy to use11
• helpful support6
• reliable6

• easy to use8
• good free plan5
• reliable5

• outages8
• hidden fees3
• surprise bill3

• poor support42
• surprise bill22
• outages21

• slow4
• poor support2
• hidden fees1