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."We like the that, within the public subnet of this solution, a new instance of the tool is launched when it detects an issue, in order to prevent interruptions in performance."
"It has a lot of new features that make our lives easier in terms of what we want it to do in the house."
"Easy to access and secure, two important features."
"I like that is very easy to use and that it's flexible."
"The documentation is very good."
"The whole solution is well designed and AWS has decent documentation, which is not to be taken for granted. I've also found that AWS is easy to use."
"You can build and release applications quickly with AWS instead of waiting for months to get the necessary hardware. That's the real benefit. The time-to-market for developing applications is much shorter."
"The storage is most valuable. The gateway and documentation are also quite good."
"The user interface is nice, and it is very easy to use. Anyone can use it."
"The solution is very stable."
"The customer support team are very responsive."
"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."
"I like Kubernetes integration."
"The most valuable feature is the ease with which you can create a phishing server and use it."
"The solution is easy to set up."
"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."
"AWS could be more scalable."
"The price could be better."
"The pricing structure can be improved and made more straightforward."
"The solution could have better security and more integration with other platforms."
"It's a good cloud, however, if I compare it with Azure, Azure is more of a feature-rich cloud."
"The price of the solution is comparatively quite high in comparison with that of Azure."
"The technical support package for free trial users should be built on and improved."
"They are mainly generalists without access to the operating system. As such, they can provide container level insights,not necessarily at the application level."
"I think something needs to be done in terms of technical support."
"We found the solution to be a bit expensive."
"The solution could improve by having integration with GitHub."
"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."
"The technical support for this solution could be improved."
"I would like to see an automation feature added to send emails out using the open-source solution."
"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"
"I would like to see improvements to the logging and user interface. The verification process could be more streamlined."
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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