Top 10 Amazon EC2 Alternatives & Competitors

Top 10 Alternatives to Amazon EC2 Recently Reviewed By G2 Community

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Google Compute Engine
By Google
4.5/5
(933)
Product Description
Compute Engine enables you to create and run large-scale workloads on virtual machines hosted on Google Cloud. Get running quickly with pre-built and ready-to-go configurations or create machines of your own with the optimal amount of vCPU and memory required for your workload.
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Reviewers say compared to Amazon EC2, Google Compute Engine is:
More expensive
Easier to set up
More usable
Categories in common with Amazon EC2:
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

DigitalOcean
By DigitalOcean
4.6/5
(675)
Product Description
DigitalOcean provides the best tools to control your virtual server in the cloud. Learn how we deliver the most intuitive interface and features so you can start building your web infrastructure today.
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Reviewers say compared to Amazon EC2, DigitalOcean is:
Easier to set up
More usable
Easier to admin
Categories in common with Amazon EC2:
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

Azure Virtual Machines
By Microsoft
4.4/5
(382)
Product Description
Azure Virtual Machines gives you the flexibility of virtualization for a wide range of computing solutions: development and testing, running applications, and extending your datacenter with support for Linux, Windows Server, SQL Server, Oracle, IBM, and SAP.
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Reviewers say compared to Amazon EC2, Azure Virtual Machines is:
More expensive
Easier to set up
More usable
Categories in common with Amazon EC2:
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

Akamai Cloud
By Akamai Technologies
4.5/5
(348)
Product Description
The Developer Cloud Simplified
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Reviewers say compared to Amazon EC2, Akamai Cloud is:
Easier to set up
More usable
Easier to admin
Categories in common with Amazon EC2:
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

Vultr
By Vultr Holdings LLC
4.3/5
(280)
Product Description
Vultr offers a standardized highly reliable high performance cloud compute environment with 14 datacenters around the globe.
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Reviewers say compared to Amazon EC2, Vultr is:
Easier to set up
More usable
Easier to admin
Categories in common with Amazon EC2:
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

OVHcloud
By OVH SAS
3.3/5
(72)
Product Description
OVHcloud offers a wide range of solutions from VPS (Virtual Private Servers), dedicated servers (including storage servers, game servers, enterprise servers and others), public cloud instances, web hosting plans & domain names and many more. Our solutions are scalable to your business needs whether it is a small project, medium-scale project or big/large project that requires customized servers or cloud computing infrastructures.
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Categories in common with Amazon EC2:
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

IBM Cloud Virtual Servers
By IBM
3.8/5
(55)
Product Description
IBM's platform-as-a-service (IBM SmartCloud Application Services) delivers a secure, collaborative cloud-based environment that supports a full lifecycle of accelerated application development, deployment and delivery.
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Reviewers say compared to Amazon EC2, IBM Cloud Virtual Servers is:
Slower to reach roi
More expensive
Categories in common with Amazon EC2:
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

Hostwinds
By Hostwinds
4.9/5
(438)
Product Description
Hostwinds offers website hosting for individuals and businesses of all sizes, with 24/7/365 support and nightly backups.
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Reviewers say compared to Amazon EC2, Hostwinds is:
Slower to reach roi
Easier to set up
More usable
Categories in common with Amazon EC2:
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets
By Microsoft
4.5/5
(30)
Product Description
Azure virtual machine scale set automatically increases or decreases the number of VM instances that run your application. This automated and elastic behavior reduces the management overhead to monitor and optimize the performance of your application.
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Reviewers say compared to Amazon EC2, Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets is:
Easier to admin
Easier to set up
More expensive
Categories in common with Amazon EC2:
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

OpenStack
By OpenStack
4.2/5
(53)
Product Description
OpenStack software controls large pools of compute, storage, and networking resources throughout a datacenter, managed through a dashboard or via the OpenStack API. OpenStack works with popular enterprise and open source technologies making it ideal for heterogeneous infrastructure.
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Categories in common with Amazon EC2:
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

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