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."This solution features ease of use and market adaptability."
"It offers durability, high availability, fault tolerance, and a high TCO benefit."
"The solution can scale quite well."
"The environment is a rich playground, and if you tried to do the same things on-premises that you do on AWS, it would be a lot more challenging to execute. You can open up a virtual machine on AWS, run some experiments, and be done with it. It's much easier than buying new servers, provisioning them, etc"
"The most valuable feature is that it is simple."
"It is very easy to set up. It is also easy to use. It has a lot of services and integrations. We've been able to integrate whatever we need until now."
"They integrate well with various other solutions."
"Friendly console for implementation."
"The most valuable feature is the ease with which you can create a phishing server and use it."
"The customer support team are very responsive."
"The solution is easy to set up."
"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 very stable."
"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."
"I like Kubernetes integration."
"They can launch the Oracle service in Azure, and we expect that this should be possible in Amazon AWS as well."
"We have had several issues with the products and services but as of now, there are no good alternatives."
"We have a very good approach internally with what we have developed. It involved overcoming some hurdles regarding the single point of truth or single point of configuration, which is sometimes not that easy for AWS. There are dashboards and you have your web service, but bringing all these together and orchestrating is sometimes quite difficult."
"The price could be better."
"Price can always be cheaper."
"I'd like to see integration with MySQL."
"Configuration could be simplified."
"It would be ideal if they could provide automatic health reports. That way, I would be able to understand at a glance the state of my services at any given time."
"I would like to see improvements to the logging and user interface. The verification process could be more streamlined."
"I would like to see an automation feature added to send emails out using the open-source solution."
"The solution could improve by having integration with GitHub."
"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"
"The technical support for this solution could be improved."
"I think something needs to be done in terms of technical support."
"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."
"We found the solution to be a bit expensive."
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, Microsoft Azure, Red Hat OpenShift, 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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