Amazon Web Services (AWS) vs. Digital Ocean 2020

Find out which one is the best for your needs

Pricing
Starting price	$5.83 / month	$5.00 / month
Free domain	No	No
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User Ratings
Reliability	4.7 / 10	6.2 / 10
Pricing	4.5 / 10	6.9 / 10
User Friendly	4.4 / 10	6.3 / 10
Support	4.1 / 10	5.5 / 10
Features	5 / 10	6.3 / 10

User Reviews
Latest positive review	AWS Customer Support R... Aug. 23, 2018 Reliability 10 Pricing 10 User Friendly 10 Support 10 Features 10 If anyone ever wants to know the truth and facts about AWS Customer Supports Vs GoDaddy, Hostway, Hosting Source, Google, App... More le READ THIS: 7 years now dealing with AWS I cannot explain how many times they have gone beyond what their rules and Regs and policies are to HELP, SUPPORT and maintain whatever it takes for AWS to serve and keep us as a client. They are the NUMBER 1 Company and they already WON Best Customer Support globally as far as I am concerned Less	Excellent Reliable Ser... Nov. 11, 2019 Reliability 10 Pricing 10 User Friendly 8.0 Support 10 Features 10 I have been hosting with Digital ocean for the past two years after trying godaddy, hostgator, namecheap, etc. By far this ha... More s been the best and more reliable service. If you don't know how to do something, digital ocean has very good documentation from the community to help you out how to do something. Less
Latest negative review	AWS Poor Service Runni... Dec. 17, 2019 Reliability 2.0 Pricing 6.0 User Friendly 2.0 Support 2.0 Features 2.0 We have over 14 EC2 Instances running out of Australia and AWS e service is getting slowly worse Over last 3 weeks we have se... More en issues and they are now in state over last week of " NO available Resources available in some zones" There staff cannot resolve issues and give us complete BS in relation to the issues, if fact there answer is to pay for a larger Server for one we have that are running at 2 % load. Its easy now thanks AWS now moving some of our customers to Microsoft Azure Ps Thanks for making pay for support to tell you you service is Down !!!!!!!!!!!! Less	BS - hard to cancel ac... Jan. 17, 2020 Reliability 2.0 Pricing 2.0 User Friendly 2.0 Support 2.0 Features 2.0 What the heck is a droplet? If I want to cancel, let me cancel.

Server Locations
North America	Yes	Yes
Europe	Yes	Yes
Asia	Yes	Yes
Oceania	Yes	No
South America	Yes	No
Africa & Middle East	No	No

Cloud Hosting Plans
Plan Name	EC2 Spot Instances - m3.medium	$5
Space	Unlimited	20 GB
CPU	-	1 core
RAM	0 B	512 MB
Bandwidth	Unlimited	1 TB
Price	$5.83	$5.00

Plan Name	EC2 Reserved instances - M3.Large	$10
Space	Unlimited	30 GB
CPU	-	1 core
RAM	0 B	1 GB
Bandwidth	Unlimited	2 TB
Price	$73.00	$10.00

Plan Name	EC2 Dedicated instances	$20
Space	Unlimited	40 GB
CPU	-	2 cores
RAM	0 B	2 GB
Bandwidth	Unlimited	3 TB
Price	$1,440.00	$20.00

Plan Name	–	$40
Space	–	60 GB
CPU	–	2 cores
RAM	–	4 GB
Bandwidth	–	4 TB
Price	–	$40.00

Plan Name	–	$80
Space	–	80 GB
CPU	–	4 cores
RAM	–	8 GB
Bandwidth	–	5 TB
Price	–	$80.00

Plan Name	–	$160
Space	–	160 GB
CPU	–	8 cores
RAM	–	16 GB
Bandwidth	–	6 TB
Price	–	$160.00

Plan Name	–	$320
Space	–	320 GB
CPU	–	12 cores
RAM	–	32 GB
Bandwidth	–	7 TB
Price	–	$320.00

Plan Name	–	$480
Space	–	480 GB
CPU	–	16 cores
RAM	–	48 GB
Bandwidth	–	8 TB
Price	–	$480.00

Plan Name	–	$640
Space	–	640 GB
CPU	–	20 cores
RAM	–	64 GB
Bandwidth	–	9 TB
Price	–	$640.00

Plan Name	–	$120
Space	–	30 GB
CPU	–	2 cores
RAM	–	16 GB
Bandwidth	–	6 TB
Price	–	$120.00

Plan Name	–	$240
Space	–	90 GB
CPU	–	4 cores
RAM	–	32 GB
Bandwidth	–	7 TB
Price	–	$240.00

Plan Name	–	$480
Space	–	200 GB
CPU	–	8 cores
RAM	–	64 GB
Bandwidth	–	8 TB
Price	–	$480.00

Plan Name	–	$960
Space	–	340 GB
CPU	–	16 cores
RAM	–	128 GB
Bandwidth	–	9 TB
Price	–	$960.00

Plan Name	–	$1680
Space	–	500 GB
CPU	–	32 cores
RAM	–	224 GB
Bandwidth	–	10 TB
Price	–	$1,680.00
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Features
Support Services
Live Chat	No	Yes
Phone Support	No	No
Email Support	Yes	Yes
Forum Support	No	Yes
Video guides	Yes	Yes
Knowledgebase	Yes	Yes

CMS Support
Wordpress	Yes	Yes
Managed Wordpress	No	No
Joomla	Yes	Yes
Drupal	No	Yes
Magento	No	Yes
Fantastico	No	No
Presta Shop	No	No
ZenCart	No	No

OS Support
Windows	Yes	No
Linux	Yes	Yes

Language Support
PHP	Yes	Yes
Java	No	No
Python	No	No
NodeJS	No	Yes
Django	No	No
Perl	No	No
Ruby on Rails	No	No

Database Support
MongoDB	No	No
MySQL	Yes	Yes
PostgreSQL	No	No

Payment Types Support
PayPal	No	Yes
Credit Card	No	Yes
MoneyBookers	No	No
Wire Transfer	No	No
Webmoney	No	No
Bitcoin	No	No

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