AWS EC2 vs Digital Ocean Droplet - Price Comparison
AWS EC2 vs Digital Ocean Droplet - Price Comparison 4GB RAM Droplet Let's take the popular droplet plan offered by Digital ocean and compare it with the equivalent EC2 instance. Month Cost Hourly 0.03 x 720 = $21.6 . So they offer $20/month if you are ready to pay upfront. That makes it yearly. $20 x 12 = $240 4GB T2 Medium EC2 With the on-demand instance, you can stop or terminate the instance and Amazon will discontinue charging you the hourly fees. With the No-Upfront Reserved Instance, you commit to paying the hourly instance charge for every hour of the month for 12 months, whether or not you are actually running a matching instance. Because you promise to pay for the whole year, Amazon gives you a discount on the fees for that year. So immediately convert your on-demand EC2 instances to no-upfront if you run it full time. Comparison with Reserved Instances Let's see how the EC2 prices compare against droplet of the same capacity. Reserve