Amazon Web Services vs DigitalOcean

The Basics

	Amazon Web Services	DigitalOcean
Website	aws.amazon.com	digitalocean.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2006	2011
Data Center Locations	31	14
Example Customers	Vanguard, Disney, Samsung, Zocdoc, GoPro	Crisp, ScraperAPI, GHost, and CTO.ai

	Amazon Web Services
Website	aws.amazon.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2006
Data Center Locations	31
Example Customers	Vanguard, Disney, Samsung, Zocdoc, GoPro

	DigitalOcean
Website	digitalocean.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2011
Data Center Locations	14
Example Customers	Crisp, ScraperAPI, GHost, and CTO.ai

Cost Comparison

How do Amazon Web Services's prices compare against DigitalOcean?

Example configuration	Amazon Web Services	DigitalOcean
VM Small	$7.49 / mo 2 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (t3.micro)	$6.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (Basic)
VM Medium	$119.80 / mo 4 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (t3.xlarge)	$48.00 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GiB RAM (Basic)
VM Large	$248.20 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (c5.2xlarge)	$168.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (CPU-Optimized)
Block Storage	$8.00 / mo 100 GB	$10.00 / mo 100 GB
Object Storage	$24.63 / mo 1 TB	$20.00 / mo 1 TiB
Load Balancer	$22.57 / mo Network Load Balancer	$12.00 / mo
Managed PostgreSQL	$57.59 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GiB RAM, 50 GB storage (db.t3.medium)	$60.00 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 60 GB storage
Managed Redis®*	$114.58 / mo 1 vCPU, 1.55 GiB RAM (cache.t2.small)	$15.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM
Serverless 25M Executions	$36.26 / mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration	$34.69 / mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration
Free egress allowance	100 GB / mo	100 GB - 10 TB / mo per instance
1 TB of egress beyond allowance	$92.16	$10.00

Note: These pricing examples are based on several assumptions. Your actual costs may differ. Always check the cloud provider's website for the most up-to-date pricing.

Which services do they offer?

Here are some of the managed services that Amazon Web Services and DigitalOcean offer:

Service	Amazon Web Services	DigitalOcean
Block Storage
Content Delivery Network (CDN)
Container Registry
GPU-powered Servers
Load Balancer
Managed Containers
Managed Kubernetes
Managed MySQL
Managed PostgreSQL
Managed Redis®*
Object Storage
Serverless Cron Jobs
Serverless Functions
Static Sites
Virtual Private Server (VPS)

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