AWS vs. DigitalOcean – A Performance Comparison

[sdomino]

https://content.nanobox.io/aws-vs-digital-ocean-a-performance-comparison/

[technologyvault]

If those results are representative, it seems like AWS is the obvious choice.

What specific reasons are there for people to choose an alternative for hosting, particularly DigitalOcean?

[sanderson1 → technologyvault]

From personal experience:

- AWS seems to have more stability issues than Digital Ocean and their status page doesn't seem to reflect reality.

- AWS support is a total black hole. Digital Ocean is pretty responsive.

- Digital Ocean's UI is miles ahead of AWS's

- AWS Analysis Paralysis - too many options, hard to understand the differences.