We performed a comparison between Amazon AWS and DigitalOcean based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The features that I have found most valuable are its cloud storage and compute services."
"It's highly scalable. It's guaranteed 99.99% uptime, and it shows you can scale up or scale out whenever you need more space."
"I like the technical support."
"The tool is a hosting platform that we can leverage to open servers. We can use it to build databases. We use cost management and high-performance capabilities of the tool."
"Amazon AWS is very stable."
"The solution has very good Lambda functions within AWS."
"Amazon has a much better understanding of the workflow of data scientists and machine learning processes. This is seen by their SageMaker which offers different versions of the models to be used."
"I am very impressed by the solution's stability."
"The most outstanding aspect of DigitalOcean is its user interface and ease of use. Compared to more complex solutions, such as AWS, DigitalOcean's platform is highly intuitive and user-friendly."
"The solution is very stable."
"The most valuable feature is the ease with which you can create a phishing server and use it."
"It's been a good choice for us for some services. We generally have several deployments. For instance, for some static Angular applications, it was a clear choice to run them on Cloudflare, which performs very well in this context. All the assets go on DigitalOcean."
"The user interface is nice, and it is very easy to use. Anyone can use it."
"The solution is easy to set up."
"The customer support team are very responsive."
"I like Kubernetes integration."
"There are some limitations for certain applications that happen regionally and it is an issue for us."
"There are numerous use cases, and the setup varies from complicated to very simple in some cases."
"Customer access to APIs is limited so that logs cannot be checked properly."
"The technical support package for free trial users should be built on and improved."
"The pricing structure can be improved and made more straightforward."
"We would appreciate it if the product was cheaper."
"This solution would be improved with the inclusion of hybrid Kubernetes management."
"Monitoring still needs to be improved."
"The solution could improve by having integration with GitHub."
"I would like to see an automation feature added to send emails out using the open-source solution."
"We found the solution to be a bit expensive."
"I think something needs to be done in terms of technical support."
"The technical support for this solution could be improved."
"Other solutions are proving the monitoring feature, like AWS having GuardDuty and SAP having services for logs and monitoring. DigitalOcean doesn’t have any other benefits."
"I would like to see improvements to the logging and user interface. The verification process could be more streamlined."
"The issue with DigitalOcean is primarily the latency. So, when you have a mixed system with some components staying here, and then we encounter network latency, it's not optimal. Our"
Amazon AWS is ranked 2nd in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 250 reviews while DigitalOcean is ranked 12th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 9 reviews. Amazon AWS is rated 8.4, while DigitalOcean is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Amazon AWS writes "Reliable with good security but is difficult to set up". On the other hand, the top reviewer of DigitalOcean writes "Testing new systems is affordable. Backup/snapshots does not always restore properly". Amazon AWS is most compared with Linode, OpenShift, Microsoft Azure, SAP Cloud Platform and Salesforce Platform, whereas DigitalOcean is most compared with Google Firebase, Microsoft Azure, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Alibaba Cloud and SAP S4HANA on AWS. See our Amazon AWS vs. DigitalOcean report.
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