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AWS is a cloud service provider with a huge ecosystem of services. Digital Ocean is a VPS provider.

It's like comparing a harddisk manufacturer to Apple.

Even EC2 is barely an overlap, since EC2 is a computation unit in the convenient form of a (very ephemeral) virtual server, not the virtual equivalent of an actual, permanent server. (And you're going to be in a world of hurt if you use them like that.)



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