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Sunil Gosai
You can quickly build and release applications, but performance is weaker than on-prem solutions
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... Read more →
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  • "I think they've done a pretty good job with their pricing."
  • "Its price is kind of okay. When we do a migration from on-premises to the cloud, we typically use the lift-and-shift model. Based on the studies that we have done, cost savings are definitely there when we moved from on-premises to the cloud."
  • "The price could be lower."
  • "There are many variables involved in pricing service in AWS and overall the pricing is a bit on the higher side."
  • "AWS is not an expensive product."
  • "AWS is expensive and the cost should be reduced."
  • "Amazon AWS is really cost-effective."
  • "Licensing is on a yearly basis. I believe we are satisfied with the current pricing. Otherwise, we would have switched to another vendor."

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    Questions from the Community
    How does OpenShift compare with Amazon AWS?
    Top Answer:Open Shift makes managing infrastructure easy because of self-healing and automatic scaling. There is also a wonderful dashboard mechanism to alert us in case the application is over-committing or is… more »
    How is SAP Cloud Platform different than Amazon AWS?
    Top Answer:How is SAP Cloud Platform different than Amazon AWS? Amazon AWS offers options both in terms of upgrading and expanding capabilities as well as acquiring greater storage space. These upgrades can… more »
    Looking to compare Google Firebase, Amazon AWS, and Microsoft Azure
    Top Answer:We like Google Firebase hosting and authentication and also the excellent cloud functionality. Our team found the flexibility of handling and dealing with the database through EDL to be very useful… more »
    What do you like most about DigitalOcean?
    Top Answer:Absolute price transparency (no surprises).  Overall, a low-cost solution with very good quality and stability. Best price/quality balance nowadays.
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    What needs improvement with DigitalOcean?
    Top Answer:I think the support can be improved, and I also think DigitalOcean needs to work on the reliability of the droplets. I've done some research and discovered that the droplet becomes unbootable. The… more »
    What is your primary use case for DigitalOcean?
    Top Answer:We use this program for reliability and support. We have several solutions, enterprise solutions, which we deploy for our clients. So we manage the deployment, management of the service and everything… more »
    Ranking
    2nd
    out of 60 in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS)
    Views
    43,991
    Comparisons
    39,560
    Reviews
    161
    Average Words per Review
    423
    Rating
    8.4
    12th
    out of 60 in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS)
    Views
    1,311
    Comparisons
    1,134
    Reviews
    0
    Average Words per Review
    0
    Rating
    N/A
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    Amazon Web Services, AWS
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    Overview

    Amazon Web Services (AWS), is a collection of cloud computing services, also called web services, that make up a cloud-computing platform offered by Amazon.com. These services operate from 12 geographical regions across the world. The most central and well-known of these services arguably include Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, also known as "EC2", and Amazon Simple Storage Service, also known as "S3". Amazon markets AWS as a service to provide large computing capacity more quickly and more cheaply than a client company building an actual physical server farm.

    DigitalOcean has the fastest and most convenient cloud technology to help you easily and more efficiently manage your infrastructure so you can get back to coding. We provide all of our users with high-performance SSD Hard Drives, a flexible API, and the ability to select the nearest data center location.
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    Sample Customers
    Pinterest, General Electric, Pfizer, Netflix, and Nasdaq.
    jQuery Foundation, Pertino, TaskRabbit, Compose, InfluxDB, The Able Few
    Top Industries
    REVIEWERS
    Computer Software Company30%
    Financial Services Firm14%
    Comms Service Provider9%
    Manufacturing Company5%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company22%
    Comms Service Provider18%
    Financial Services Firm11%
    Manufacturing Company6%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Comms Service Provider35%
    Computer Software Company22%
    Government6%
    University5%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business46%
    Midsize Enterprise17%
    Large Enterprise37%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business17%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise70%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business23%
    Midsize Enterprise20%
    Large Enterprise57%
    Buyer's Guide
    Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS)
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    Amazon AWS is ranked 2nd in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 167 reviews while DigitalOcean is ranked 12th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS). Amazon AWS is rated 8.4, while DigitalOcean is rated 0.0. The top reviewer of Amazon AWS writes "Flexible, scales well, and offers good stability". On the other hand, Amazon AWS is most compared with Microsoft Azure, SAP Cloud Platform, OpenShift, IBM Public Cloud and Linode, whereas DigitalOcean is most compared with Oracle Cloud, Google Firebase, Alibaba Cloud, Microsoft Azure and SAP S4HANA on AWS.

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