AWS CloudFormation vs. DigitalOcean Droplets
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AWS CloudFormation | Score8.8 out of 10 | N/A | AWS CloudFormation gives developers and systems administrators a way to create and manage a collection of related AWS resources, provisioning and updating them in a predictable fashion. Use AWS CloudFormation’s sample templates or create templates to describe the AWS resources, and any associated dependencies or runtime parameters, required to run an application. Users don’t need to figure out the order for provisioning AWS services or the subtleties of making those dependencies work.… | $0 |
DigitalOcean Droplets | Score8.7 out of 10 | N/A | DigitalOcean's Droplets is designed to help the user spin up a virtual machine in just 55 seconds. Standard, General Purpose, CPU-Optimized, or Memory-Optimized configurations provide flexibility to build, test, and grow an app from startup to scale. | $4 per month |
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| Additional Details | There is no additional charge for using AWS CloudFormation with resource providers in the following namespaces: AWS::*, Alexa::*, and Custom::*. In this case you pay for AWS resources (such as Amazon EC2 instances, Elastic Load Balancing load balancers, etc.) created using AWS CloudFormation as if you created them manually. You only pay for what you use, as you use it; there are no minimum fees and no required upfront commitments. When you use resource providers with AWS CloudFormation outside the namespaces mentioned above, you incur charges per handler operation. Handler operations are create, update, delete, read, or list actions on a resource. | Pricing for DigitalOcean Droplets varies depending on the size of the virtual environment and the associated data needs. | ||||||||||||||
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| Considered Both Products | No answer on this topic | No answer on this topic |
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100% Would buy again 5 Answers | 100% Would buy again 8 Answers | |
| Delivers good value for the price | ||
100% Delivers good value for the price 5 Answers | 100% Delivers good value for the price 8 Answers | |
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80% Happy with the feature set 4 Answers | 88% Happy with the feature set 7 Answers | |
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80% Lived up to sales and marketing promises 4 Answers | 100% Lived up to sales and marketing promises 7 Answers | |
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100% Implementation went as expected 5 Answers | 88% Implementation went as expected 7 Answers | |
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| Small Businesses | Salt Score6.2 out of 10 | Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Score8.9 out of 10 |
| Medium-sized Companies | Perforce Puppet Score8.9 out of 10 | IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers Score8.7 out of 10 |
| Enterprises | AWS Config Score7 out of 10 | SAP on IBM Cloud Score9.5 out of 10 |
| All Alternatives | View all alternatives | View all alternatives |
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| Likelihood to Recommend | 7.6 | 9.9 |
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