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:

Less Caring

Less Reliable

Less Efficient

Less Transparent

Less Inspiring

Less Respectful

Google

Google Cloud

9.0

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+95

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Compared to Amazon EC2, Google Cloud is:

More Transparent

More Caring

Worse at Support

Harder to Customize

Harder to Implement

Worse at Training

Oracle

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

8.9

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+92

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Compared to Amazon EC2, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is:

More Caring

Worse at Integrating

Less Efficient

Less Reliable

Harder to Customize

Worse at Support

IBM

IBM Cloud Bare Metal

8.5

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+94

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Compared to Amazon EC2, IBM Cloud Bare Metal is:

More Transparent

More Caring

Less Respectful

Less Reliable

Harder to Customize

Worse at Training

OpenMetal

OpenMetal On-Demand Private Cloud

8.2

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+87

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Compared to Amazon EC2, OpenMetal On-Demand Private Cloud is:

Better at Support

More Inspiring

Worse at Training

Less Efficient

Less Innovative

Less Caring

DigitalOcean

DigitalOcean

8.2

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+87

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Compared to Amazon EC2, DigitalOcean is:

Worse at Training

Less Inspiring

Less Reliable

Less Respectful

Less Transparent

Less Efficient

Alibaba Cloud

Alibaba Cloud

7.9

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+87

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35

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Compared to Amazon EC2, Alibaba Cloud is:

Worse at Training

Harder to Use

Less Reliable

Worse at Integrating

Less Transparent

Less Efficient

CloudSigma

CloudSigma

7.8

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+89

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16

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Compared to Amazon EC2, CloudSigma is:

Less Reliable

Harder to Customize

Less Efficient

Harder to Implement

Less Innovative

Less Respectful

Most Popular Amazon EC2 Comparisons