The good, bad and ugly of Digital Ocean vs AWS

1. The Good, Bad and Ugly

2. About me
Founder of Azukisoft
iOS and mobile consultancy firm

3. Cloud

4. AWS
Easy to set up
Popular
Has great mind share
Has tools such as ELB etc

5. AWS

6. AWS
But just because it is popular
Does not mean it’s good
Expensive
Charges for every thing you use

7. AWS

8. AWS
Not suited for tech savvy startups
Who are on a budget
Lots of hidden costs
AWS suited for companies who want
a datacenter, not a server

9. Digital Ocean

10. Digital Ocean
Cheap
Good
Great for tech savvy startups

11. Digital Ocean

12. Digital Ocean

13. Digital Ocean
WYSIWYP
What You See Is What You Pay
No hidden costs
Simpler to manage
But

14. Digital Ocean
You lose the convenience of the tools
that AWS provides
Such as SNS
ELB
As Amazon bundles all these into their
ecosysystem

15. Digital Ocean
But luckily, there are a lot of
alternatives for what AWS provides
For load balancing
Queue systems

16. Summary
Decide on what you want
If you are looking for datacenter VPS
where you can install all the frills with
1 click and you have cash to burn
Use AWS

17. The End
Else give Digital Ocean a spin