DigitalOcean vs Amazon EC2

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212 reviews

61 signal

56 reviews

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

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

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