Amazon EC2 vs Railway 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 love Railway for being very easy to deploy to, with simple pricing that suits side projects and small production apps.

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 use24
• great value11
• reliable8

• easy to use8
• good free plan5
• reliable5

• outages8
• hidden fees3
• surprise bill3

• outages42
• poor support14
• surprise bill6

• slow4
• poor support2
• hidden fees1