Cloud Infrastructure as a Service
Top Amazon EC2 Alternatives and Competitors

Looking to upgrade or change your solution? Take away the guesswork and stay informed with end user feedback to identify and select the solution that best matches your needs.

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) offers the broadest and deepest compute platform, with over 500 instances and choice of the latest processor, storage, networking, operating system, and purchase model to help you best match the needs of your workload. We are the first major cloud provider that supports Intel, AMD, and Arm processors, the only cloud with on-demand EC2 Mac instances, and the only cloud with 400 Gbps Ethernet networking.

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Best Alternatives and Competitors to Amazon EC2

Compare how Amazon EC2 stacks up to the competition in the areas that matter most to real users to short list options that will best fit your business needs.

Microsoft Corporation

Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines

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Compared to Amazon EC2, Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines is:

Better at Training

Less Innovative

Less Respectful

Less Efficient

Worse at Support

Less Inspiring

Google

Google Cloud

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Compared to Amazon EC2, Google Cloud is:

More Transparent

More Caring

More Respectful

Harder to Customize

Worse at Support

Less Efficient

Oracle

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

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Compared to Amazon EC2, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is:

Less Innovative

Less Efficient

Worse at Integrating

Less Inspiring

Harder to Implement

Worse at Training

OpenMetal

OpenMetal Hosted Private Cloud

8.5

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+91

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Compared to Amazon EC2, OpenMetal Hosted Private Cloud is:

Better at Support

More Transparent

More Inspiring

Worse at Training

Harder to Use

Less Innovative

DigitalOcean

DigitalOcean

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+90

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Compared to Amazon EC2, DigitalOcean is:

Less Innovative

Worse at Support

Worse at Training

Worse at Integrating

Less Inspiring

Less Reliable

IBM

IBM Cloud Bare Metal

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Compared to Amazon EC2, IBM Cloud Bare Metal is:

More Caring

More Transparent

More Inspiring

Easier to Implement

More Efficient

Less Respectful

Akamai

Akamai Essential Compute

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+96

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Compared to Amazon EC2, Akamai Essential Compute is:

More Transparent

More Caring

More Inspiring

Easier to Customize

Worse at Integrating

Less Respectful

CloudSigma

CloudSigma

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+92

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24

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Compared to Amazon EC2, CloudSigma is:

Easier to Use

Harder to Customize

Less Efficient

Less Reliable

Worse at Support

Harder to Implement

Alibaba Cloud

Alibaba Cloud

7.9

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+87

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43

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Compared to Amazon EC2, Alibaba Cloud is:

Less Innovative

Less Transparent

Less Efficient

Harder to Implement

Less Caring

Harder to Use

OrionVM Pty Ltd

OrionVM Infrastructure as a Service

7.8

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+89

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10

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Compared to Amazon EC2, OrionVM Infrastructure as a Service is:

Easier to Customize

Better at Support

Less Inspiring

Less Transparent

Less Innovative

Less Efficient

OVH US LLC

OVHcloud Public Cloud

7.7

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+96

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10

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Compared to Amazon EC2, OVHcloud Public Cloud is:

More Inspiring

Harder to Customize

Harder to Implement

Worse at Integrating

Harder to Use

Worse at Training

Lumen Technologies

Lumen Edge Private Cloud

7.3

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+77

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10

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Compared to Amazon EC2, Lumen Edge Private Cloud is:

Less Respectful

Less Innovative

Harder to Use

Less Efficient

Less Reliable

Less Inspiring

Most Popular Amazon EC2 Comparisons