AWS EC2 vs Digital Ocean Droplet - Price Comparison

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.
digital-ocean-droplet-4gb
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

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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.
Reserved instanceYearly costDroplet Diff
No upfront0 + 20.95 x 12 = $251.4+ $11.4/yr
Partial upfront120 + 10 x 12 = $240+ $0/yr
Full upfront235 + 0 x 12 = $235- $5/yr
If you take the monthly plan of droplet 4GB server, you get an advantage of $20.95 - $20 = $0.95/month.$11.4/year isnt much considering the services AWS offers. Besides, if you consider the long-running, dependable server for a year, which you prefer to pay for the full year, AWS seems to be a better option with a cost advantage of $5/yr.

Conclusion

An advantage of saving $11.4 over a year doesn't seem worthwhile to move to Digital Ocean with your EC2 instances.

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