Amazon EC2 vs Oracle Cloud 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.

Generous free tier for small servers, but free instances can be hard to get or vanish unannounced.

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

• great value7
• reliable6
• easy to use2

• reliable51
• good free plan36
• great value7

• reliable38
• great value23
• easy to use13

• outages8
• hidden fees3
• surprise bill3

• poor support13
• slow5
• surprise bill3

• poor support34
• outages9
• slow6