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."I am impressed with the solution's EC2 EKS."
"In general, Amazon's performance is good."
"The most important feature is deploying our production in multi-data regions around the world."
"The initial implementation process is not difficult or complex."
"The most useful feature of Amazon AWS is it can be accessed from anywhere."
"The solution offers a low footprint. We don't have to come up with a data center ourselves. We basically don't have to own any hardware. We just rent a slice of their platform and we have everything we need."
"Easy to access and secure, two important features."
"The ease of use is the biggest benefit."
"I like Kubernetes integration."
"The user interface is nice, and it is very easy to use. Anyone can use it."
"The solution is very stable."
"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."
"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 customer support team are very responsive."
"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."
"At times we find ourselves a little trapped, with the lack of customization, for what we need."
"The problem with AWS is you have to keep up with the technology. If you don't stay up to date with the technology and its latest changes then you won't know what to use in your infrastructure."
"Some features may be better in Azure or some other portal. AWS could add some of those features."
"Not all of the functionality is available in Europe and our customers in France want to be able to use features that are only available in the US."
"We have had some difficulty figuring out how to monitor how many EC2 instances have been networked into our entire enterprise. We usually try to create a diagram outside of AWS. The types of information we are trying to determine are, for example, what hardware devices are interconnected, and when was the interconnection made."
"I think that the interface could be improved."
"Like anything, Amazon AWS has room for improvement, but it's not bad."
"Our API Management solution is integrated with Lambda, and last year, we had an issue while upgrading Lambda from version 8.0 to version 10. It seemed like Lambda runtime was changed by AWS, and there was a bug that caused the downtime. The loading of the dashboard is slow. It could be because I am located in China."
"I would like to see improvements to the logging and user interface. The verification process could be more streamlined."
"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 think something needs to be done in terms of technical support."
"The technical support for this solution could be improved."
"We found the solution to be a bit expensive."
"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 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."
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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