Fly.io vs Amazon EC2 vs Render

Easy, cheap deploys for small apps; the main downsides are past outages and hands-on database setup.

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.

• easy to use4
• great value2
• easy migration1

• great value7
• reliable6
• easy to use2

• easy to use8
• good free plan5
• reliable5

• outages4

• outages8
• hidden fees3
• surprise bill3

• slow4
• poor support2
• hidden fees1