DigitalOcean vs Amazon EC2 vs Amazon Lightsail

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76 signal

61 signal

63 signal

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.

Users like Amazon Lightsail as a simple, predictably priced host for WordPress and small apps, with several reporting long stable runs.

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