Azure Spot Virtual Machines vs. DigitalOcean Droplets
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![]() Azure Spot Virtual Machines | N/A | N/A | Azure Spot Virtual Machines offer lower cost unused Azure compute capacity at scale. Spot Virtual Machines can be used to buy unused compute capacity at cost savings and deploy workloads that can handle interruptions and don't need to be completed within a specific period of time. Users can also run workloads for development, testing, quality assurance, advanced analytics, big data, machine learning and AI, batch jobs, rendering and transcoding of videos, graphics, and images at a lower cost. | N/A |
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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| Entry-level Setup Fee | No setup fee | No setup fee | ||||||||||||||
| Additional Details | — | Pricing for DigitalOcean Droplets varies depending on the size of the virtual environment and the associated data needs. | ||||||||||||||
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| Would buy again | ||
No answers on this topic | 100% Would buy again 8 Answers | |
| Delivers good value for the price | ||
No answers on this topic | 100% Delivers good value for the price 8 Answers | |
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No answers on this topic | 88% Happy with the feature set 7 Answers | |
| Lived up to sales and marketing promises | ||
No answers on this topic | 100% Lived up to sales and marketing promises 7 Answers | |
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No answers on this topic | 88% Implementation went as expected 7 Answers | |
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| Small Businesses | DigitalOcean Droplets Score8.7 out of 10 | Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Score8.9 out of 10 |
| Medium-sized Companies | IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers Score8.7 out of 10 | IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers Score8.7 out of 10 |
| Enterprises | SAP on IBM Cloud Score9.5 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 | - | 9.9 |
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