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DigitalOcean vs AWS: Which Cloud Server is Better? | UpGuard

DigitalOcean vs. AWS is a David vs. Goliath story with a twist. Like David, DigitalOcean has a strategy that plays to its strengths while avoiding a direct confrontation with Amazon.

In terms of application scalability, there is little to choose between DigitalOcean and AWS.

The DigitalOcean “Resize” feature lets you add capacity and compute power to your Droplets, however, to really scale your application elegantly, you will want to add nodes, something you can do via the DigitalOcean API.

Paid support plans come in the following three tiers: Besides paid support, both AWS and DigitalOcean make users’ lives easier with managed services and, in the case of DigitalOcean, a Marketplace for 1-ClickApps.