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Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) vs. DigitalOcean Droplets

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AAmazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) lets users provision a logically isolated section of the AWS Cloud where they can launch AWS resources in a virtual network. Users have control over the virtual networking environment, including selection of one's IP address range, creation of subnets, and configuration of route tables and network gateways. Users can use both IPv4 and IPv6 in the VPC for secure and easy access to resources and applications.

    $0.05

    per month per NAT gateway

    DigitalOcean Droplets

    Score9.7 out of 10
    N/ADigitalOcean's Droplets is designed to help the user spin up a virtual machine in just 55 seconds. Standard, General Purpose, CPU-Optimized, or Memory-Optimized configurations provide flexibility to build, test, and grow an app from startup to scale.

    $4

    per month

    Pricing
    Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)DigitalOcean Droplets
    Editions & Modules
    IP Address Manager (IPAM)
    $0.00027 per active IP address managed by IPAM
    Hourly
    Traffic Monitoring
    $0.015 per ENI ($/hour)
    Hourly
    NAT Gateway
    $0.045 per NAT gateway
    Hourly
    Standard
    Free
    Hourly
    Basic
    $4
    per month
    CPU-Optimized
    $42
    per month
    General Purpose
    $63
    per month
    Memory-Optimized
    $84
    per month
    Storage-Optimized
    $131
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)DigitalOcean Droplets
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsThere is no additional charge for creating and using an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) itself, you can pay for optional VPC capabilities with usage-based charges. AWS provides features and services that give you the ability to customize control, connectivity, monitoring, and security for your Amazon VPC.Pricing for DigitalOcean Droplets varies depending on the size of the virtual environment and the associated data needs.
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Features
    Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)DigitalOcean Droplets
    Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
    Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and DigitalOcean Droplets
    Feature
    Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
    8.0
    2 Ratings
    3% below category average
    DigitalOcean Droplets
    8.8
    1 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime7.12 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Dynamic scaling8.12 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Elastic load balancing8.01 Ratings5.01 Ratings
    Pre-configured templates8.12 Ratings5.01 Ratings
    Monitoring tools9.02 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Pre-defined machine images9.01 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Operating system support5.01 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Security controls9.02 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Automation9.01 Ratings10.01 Ratings
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    Score8.7 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)DigitalOcean Droplets
    Likelihood to Recommend
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    10.0
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    User Testimonials
    Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)DigitalOcean Droplets
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Amazon AWS
    If you are going to deploy within AWS, you need to know how to leverage VPCs. VPCs have several items you must configure for them to be usable and to even link one VPC to another. If you are only going to deploy a few resources or use some of the default configurations, you still need to have working knowledge of how a VPC functions. If you are used to working with VLANs and the ideology behind those, that is the best direct reference to how a VPC can be described, but with additional layers on top of that with route tables, internet gateways, etc.
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    DigitalOcean
    DigitalOcean Droplets are the best choice for developers teams that need reliable Linux servers to deploy their projects, the ability to create a droplet for testing purposes then destroy it, and only get charged for the few hours used makes the chances of messing up very slim. DigitalOcean Droplets is a great solution because the servers are scalable and the process of adding more resources like CPU or RAM to an existing droplet takes only a few minutes and once a server is scaled up it can also be scaled down if necessary which is perfect for supporting a temporary peak in traffic for example.
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    Pros
    Amazon AWS
    • Pricing model & On demand service commitment.
    • Well, architectural infrastructure development processing before spending the money.
    • AWS VPC are providing hassle-free using with all others services from AWS very easily.
    • AWS business support is very helpful & [gives] the right direction according to client’s situations.
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    DigitalOcean
    • Simplicity to scale services--the interface is very quick and effective to use
    • Reliability--this is key for us, as any downtime effects our reputation
    • Keeps the costs down--hosting our own equivalent infrastructure would cost a lot more
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    Cons
    Amazon AWS
    • The biggest issue with VPC networks is knowing how you can leverage VPC endpoints to ensure your resources within the VPC are not reaching out over the Internet to get to AWS services such as S3 and others.
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    DigitalOcean
    • In terms of an availability zone, they have limitations not available in most of the geographical locations.
    • No live support is available which can cause problem if you have outage.
    • Number of service is quite limited.
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    Usability
    Amazon AWS
    No answers on this topic
    DigitalOcean
    Other platforms dashboard console is more difficult to use. DigitalOcean's dashboard is clean, simple, and straightforward
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    Alternatives Considered
    Amazon AWS
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    DigitalOcean
    DigitalOcean Droplets is continuously evolving to be more and more powerful. It has great features and has low cost options, which is really great for developers. Its CDN, Loadbalancer, etc. make it a good place to host a high-traffic application. Moroever, DigitalOcean Droplets has a nonprofit program that helps nonprofit sites to run their infrastructure, which is tremendous and no competitor of DigitalOcean Droplets does that.
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    Return on Investment
    Amazon AWS
    • AWS VPCs are actively used for following various compliance and regulatory needs such as network separation for PCI DSS. The ability to keep resources and access to those resources controlled through the initial steps of creating VPCs has helped tremendously.
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    DigitalOcean
    • Digital Ocean has been great helping us move web apps to the cloud
    • Digital Ocean has been really helpful when hiring contractors
    • The interface could use some work, but overall its not terrible
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