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    AWS Fargate

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AAWS Fargate is a compute engine for Amazon ECS that allows the user to run containers without having to manage servers or clusters. With AWS Fargate there is no need to provision, configure, and scale clusters of virtual machines to run containers.

    $0

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    DigitalOcean

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/ADigitalOcean is an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) platform from the company of the same name headquartered in New York. It is known for its support of managed Kubernetes clusters and “droplets” feature.

    $5

    Starting Price Per Month

    Pricing
    AWS FargateDigitalOcean
    Editions & Modules
    Fargate Spot per GB
    $0.00138679
    *per hour
    per GB
    $0.004445
    *per hour
    Fargate Spot per vCPU
    $0.01262932
    *per hour
    per vCPU
    $0.04048
    *per hour
    1GB-16GB
    $5.00
    Starting Price Per Month
    8GB-160GB
    $60.00
    Starting Price Per Month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    AWS FargateDigitalOcean
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details*based on US East rates. Price varies region to region.
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    Community Pulse
    AWS FargateDigitalOcean
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    Amazon AWS
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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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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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    AWS FargateDigitalOcean
    Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
    Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of AWS Fargate and DigitalOcean
    Feature
    AWS Fargate
    7.7
    3 Ratings
    7% below category average
    DigitalOcean
    9.2
    36 Ratings
    11% above category average
    Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime8.63 Ratings9.931 Ratings
    Dynamic scaling9.33 Ratings9.932 Ratings
    Elastic load balancing9.33 Ratings9.723 Ratings
    Pre-configured templates7.03 Ratings10.029 Ratings
    Monitoring tools7.83 Ratings9.035 Ratings
    Pre-defined machine images6.62 Ratings9.733 Ratings
    Operating system support6.63 Ratings9.033 Ratings
    Security controls8.03 Ratings8.632 Ratings
    Automation6.13 Ratings6.55 Ratings
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    Score9 out of 10
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    Score9 out of 10
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    IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
    Score8.7 out of 10
    IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Enterprises
    SAP on IBM Cloud
    Score9 out of 10
    SAP on IBM Cloud
    Score9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    AWS FargateDigitalOcean
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.1
    (3 ratings)
    8.9
    (36 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    8.6
    (3 ratings)
    8.9
    (10 ratings)
    Availability
    -
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    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.8
    (9 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Product Scalability
    -
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    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    AWS FargateDigitalOcean
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Amazon AWS
    Fargate is well suited for web APIs, microservices, background jobs, and applications with changing traffic. It is useful when teams want to run containers without managing servers. It is less appropriate for workloads that run constantly at large scale, need special hardware, require deep server control, or depend on very low costs and highly customized networking or storage requirements.
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    DigitalOcean
    DigitalOcean is perfect for hosting client websites, running marketing tools, and managing media storage with Spaces and CDN. The use of Droplets to quickly launch landing pages or WordPress sites for campaigns is a Godsend. It’s great for fast, cheap, and scalable solutions. But for complex microservices or projects needing strict compliance (like HIPAA), DigitalOcean may not always be the best fit, but that depends heavily on your project.
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    Pros
    Amazon AWS
    • scalability
    • ease of use
    • agility to up or downsize
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    DigitalOcean
    • DigitalOcean provides some of the best cost-to-value services available
    • The DigitalOcean cloud console is very intuitive and easy to navigate
    • DigitalOcean has great support for Docker and other dev ops tools like Terraform.
    • DigitalOcean iterates quickly and provides cutting edge features for organizations that want to keep up with the latest and greatest dev ops tooling
    • DigitalOcean has a great developer community and numerous support docs/tutorials
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    Cons
    Amazon AWS
    • Offers less control over the underlying server.
    • Storage options are more limited than EC2.
    • Large numbers of tasks may hit launch-rate limits.
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    DigitalOcean
    • Some products/services available on other Cloud providers aren't available, but they seem to be catching up as they add new products like Managed SQL DBs.
    • While they have FreeBSD droplets (VMs), support for *BSD OSs is limited. I.e. the new monitoring agent only works on Linux.
    • There are no regions available on South America.
    • They don't seem to offer enterprise-level products, even basic ones as Windows Server, MS SQL Server, Oracle products, etc.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Amazon AWS
    No answers on this topic
    DigitalOcean
    I've been very happy with it for my purposes and I plan to continue to use DigitalOcean for the foreseeable future!
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    Usability
    Amazon AWS
    It's a very practical service to use. If you need to deploy any application with a Database, disk storage, you're pretty much set.
    Everything around that can be taken care of using other AWS services. Like secrets manager, certificate manager, RDS ...
    And the CI/CD part is also very easy to setup, you only need on AWS CLI command to trigger a deployment, and done !
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    DigitalOcean
    I honestly can't think of an easier way to set up and maintain your own server. Being able to set up a server in minutes and have fully control is awesome. The UX is incredibly intuitive for first-time users as well so there's no reason to be intimidated when it comes to giving DigitalOcean a shot.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Amazon AWS
    No answers on this topic
    DigitalOcean
    Have not found a single second of down time myself. Superior availability.
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    Performance
    Amazon AWS
    No answers on this topic
    DigitalOcean
    Very quick response and high performance, you have to fine tune configurations on your machines though.
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    Support Rating
    Amazon AWS
    AWS provides different support tiers. They are usually very reactive and are able to help solve the issues very quickly.
    As for everything, the higher the support tier you get, the better and faster support you get.
    If you're also a part of big company, you probably have solution architects at your disposal to help you with any inqueries.
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    DigitalOcean
    They have always been fast, and the process has been straight-forward. I haven't had to use it enough to be frustrated with it, to be honest, and when I have an issue they fix it. As with all support, I wish it felt more human, but they are doing aces.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Amazon AWS
    We found the extra cost saved us frustration and time and ultimately money in the long run
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    DigitalOcean
    DigitalOcean is an inexpensive product as compared to other products available in the market. The UI is easy and the beginner can also understand the UI with the step by step guide. It provides a lot of custom features and the user needs to pay only for what they are using. Amazon has a complex UI and is on the expensive side. DigitalOcean is simple to use and is easily manageable and the servers can easily be set up without additional cost and such.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Amazon AWS
    Pricing and billing of AWS Fargate is loosely tied to your exisiting AWS billing. You're unlikely to only use Fargate in your AWS subscription, so you get billed for everything alltoghter.
    Fargate is naturally a bit more expensive that usuel docker services, but with careful planning and architecturing, you can have a very manageable cost.
    You can also rely on Saving plans to reduce your bill.
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    DigitalOcean
    No answers on this topic
    Scalability
    Amazon AWS
    No answers on this topic
    DigitalOcean
    Great scalability, you can start with small plans and move up to premium features at a very good price.
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    Return on Investment
    Amazon AWS
    • Has made seasonal apps/tools cheap to run/maintain.
    • Pay for what you use helps compare many A/B tests.
    • No server management means faster deploys.
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    DigitalOcean
    • Positive - Elastic computer instances make it possible to pay for only for what you need.
    • Positive - Competitive pricing - some of the products that DigitalOcean offers are much cheaper than those offered by competitors.
    • Negative - Having to go to other cloud computing platforms for more specific, advanced services like Computer Vision optimized services, GPU cloud compute instances, etc...
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