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AWS vs DigitalOcean

AWS is an extensive cloud platform for startups, businesses, and governments of all sizes, while DigitalOcean also offers a wide range of managed services but with a focus on simplicity and ease of use.

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What's good about...

Amazon Web Services logo AWS

  • Extensive range of managed services, from serverless to databases to queues to video streaming
  • Generous free tier and savings plan available to lock-in discounts
  • 30+ datacenter locations around the world

DigitalOcean logo DigitalOcean

  • Simple, developer-first cloud
  • Predictable pricing & monthly caps
  • AI platform powered by Paperspace GPUs
  • Vast library of tutorials & 1-click apps

Price comparison

How do AWS's prices compare against DigitalOcean?

VM Small

Amazon Web Services AWS
$7.49 / mo 2 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (t3.micro)
DigitalOcean DigitalOcean
$6.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (Basic)

VM Medium

Amazon Web Services AWS
$119.80 / mo 4 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (t3.xlarge)
DigitalOcean DigitalOcean
$48.00 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GiB RAM (Basic)

VM Large

Amazon Web Services AWS
$248.20 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (c5.2xlarge)
DigitalOcean DigitalOcean
$168.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (CPU-Optimized)

Block Storage

Amazon Web Services AWS
$8.00 / mo 100 GB
DigitalOcean DigitalOcean
$10.00 / mo 100 GB

Object Storage

Amazon Web Services AWS
$24.63 / mo 1 TB
DigitalOcean DigitalOcean
$20.00 / mo 1 TiB

Load Balancer

Amazon Web Services AWS
$22.57 / mo Network Load Balancer
DigitalOcean DigitalOcean
$12.00 / mo

Managed PostgreSQL

Amazon Web Services AWS
$57.59 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GiB RAM, 50 GB storage (db.t3.medium)
DigitalOcean DigitalOcean
$60.00 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 60 GB storage

Managed Redis®*

Amazon Web Services AWS
$24.82 / mo 1 vCPU, 1.55 GiB RAM (cache.t2.small)
DigitalOcean DigitalOcean
$15.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM

Serverless 25M Executions

Amazon Web Services AWS
$36.26 / mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration
DigitalOcean DigitalOcean
$34.69 / mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration

Free egress allowance

Amazon Web Services AWS
100 GB / mo
DigitalOcean DigitalOcean
100 GB - 10 TB / mo per instance

1 TB of egress beyond allowance

Amazon Web Services AWS
$90.00 $0.09 / GB (North America)
DigitalOcean DigitalOcean
$10.00 $0.01 / GB

GPU Fleet Overview

Same GPU, Both Providers

On-demand price per GPU-hour.

Amazon Web Services AWS
DigitalOcean DigitalOcean
H100 $6.88 $4.41 H200 $7.91 $4.47 L40S $1.86 $1.57

Billing Options

Amazon Web Services AWS
On-DemandReserved (12mo)Reserved (36mo)
DigitalOcean DigitalOcean
On-DemandSpotReserved (12mo)

Available Models

AWS offers 18 GPU models, while DigitalOcean offers 10.

Amazon Web Services AWS
H100(6) A100(6) H200(1) RTX PRO 6000(6) L40S(24) B200(1) B300(1) V100(6) L4(30) T4(21)
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DigitalOcean DigitalOcean
H100(3) H200(3) L40S(1) B300(2) RTX 6000 Ada(1) MI300X(3) RTX 4000 Ada(1) MI325X(3) MI355X(1) MI350X(2)

Heads up: A provider's own page may quote a different figure, for example on tax, region or a promotion. A monthly-only plan shows a derived hourly rate. Plan figures take each provider's closest match to a common setup. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.

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Which services do they offer

Here are some managed services that AWS and DigitalOcean offer:

Service AWS DigitalOcean
Analytics
App Testing
Block Storage
Content Delivery Network (CDN)
Container Registry
Crash Reporting
GPU-powered Servers
Load Balancer
Managed Containers
Managed Kubernetes
Managed MySQL
Managed PostgreSQL
Managed Redis®*
NoSQL Databases
Object Storage
Performance Monitoring
Push Notifications
Realtime Databases
Remote Config
Serverless Cron Jobs
Serverless Functions
Static Sites
User Authentication
Vector Databases
Virtual Private Server (VPS)

Company details

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

Alternatives to consider

Compare AWS and DigitalOcean against other cloud providers.

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Our data for AWS was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for DigitalOcean on Sept. 7, 2026.