Amazon EC2 vs. DigitalOcean vs. Microsoft Azure

About a year and a half ago (written June 2013) we moved from dedicated servers over to AWS. Thanks to AWS, we no longer have to think on a server level. Instead, we think of everything as a cluster of instances, and an instance is essentially a virtual server where we don’t have to worry about the hardware. It’s a relief to not have to worry about the hardware behind the instances.

The clusters we have are: WWW, API, Upload, HAProxy, HBase, MySQL, Memcached, Redis, and ElasticSearch, for an average total of 80 instances. Each cluster handles the job that its name describes, all working together for the common goal of giving you your daily (hourly?) dose of image entertainment.

Below is a diagram of how they all work together:

Our app servers are served from EC2

App servers, celery VMs, and a number of internal supportting systems run on EC2.

Almost all our servers run from Ubuntu on AWS EC2, as it is robust and easy to work with.

We're in the process of moving to a SOA (service-oriented architecture), and each of our services run on a cluster of EC2 boxes behind an ELB. Our services are built primarily with Go and Ruby, depending on the requirements.

All backend instances

We liked a lot of things about Heroku. We loved the build packs, and we still in fact use Heroku build packs, but we were frustrated by lack of control about a lot of things. It’s nice to own the complete stack, or rather as far down as AWS goes. It gave us a lot of flexibility and functionality that we didn’t have before. We use a lot of Amazon technology.

Pretty much all the things.

Opstax uses EC2 in replacement for traditional physical infrastructure.

We have over fleet of over 25 servers running at any given time that scales elastically with load.

For hosting and scaling our infrastructure based on demand.

모든 서버는 EC2 를 이용하고 있습니다. 가격이 저렴하다고는 할 수 없습니다만 신뢰성 있고, 관리가 아주 편리합니다. 원하는 만큼 순식간에 서버를 증설했다가 필요없을 때 바로 반납해버릴 수 있기 때문에 스타트업에서 이만한 IaaS 를 찾을 수 없다고 생각합니다. 저희가 사용하는 지역은 도쿄입니다.

It provides our cluster in a VPC

We use Amazon EC2’ to obtain and configure capacity.

host nifi and node.js

Various Activities.

To host VoicePing users management / login server and messaging router stack

Site hosting.

When you need flexibility with compute power, memory, EBS, snapshots, security groups, etc.

For running the application

The site is hosted on an EC2 instance.

Stack infrastructure

Cloud Infrastructure

Servers!!

We host our website here

Just for tuneling to RDS as a "bastion".

Where this app is deployed.

We use EC2 in some client projects.

We use this both indirectly through Elastic Beanstalk and directly for running some servers continuously. AWS is a solid provider of cloud services.

ec2에 우분투를 사용합니다. 로드 밸런싱 등의 경험은 아직 없습니다. 지금까지는 배포하기까지만 경험했습니다.

Auto-scaling region-distributed application hosting.

Our server nodes we hosted on EC2

Runs our ELB and container services

We use several EC2 instances each dedicated for a separate purpose - API servers, TCP servers for device, DB instances.

Cheap server hosting for the status page

Hosting my personal website.

Bastion host

basic

Server host

Cloud hosting.

currently using it play around with machine learning. the p2 instances have a tesla card in them!! not too bad for .90c an hour.

We use ElasticBeanstalk to manage the applications/deployment/scaling functionality over top of EC2.

There are a few smaller ec2 instances that are customized for the multiplayer system.

Audit the EC2 configurations for best practices and standards.

Cloud hosting

Amazon offers free use of an ec2 micro instance for 1 year

Integrating Amazon's many AWS services, such as RDS, is a breeze if you're using EC2.

kako.pk's web server host

Server apps.

VM hosts for Vaultize public cloud.

The same reason everyone else uses it, data crunching or websites.

We use EC2 to run our Kubernetes cluster.

Because servers. Lots of them. Lots of configurations. Great for mission-specific functions. Video encoding, data aggregation, dedicated processing, mission-critical data stores. Anything you can't hang off your Heroku environment.

The engine running it all

We host most of our infrastructure on AWS currently.

EC2 runs our application servers - the servers that do all the heavy lifting for CloudRepo.

We use EC2 to host our web services.

provisioning & deployment

Virtual Machines

We use EC2 to provide and run our NodeJS infrastructure on prod env.

The most efficient elastic cloud computing service.

Secondary jobs.

Reliable, cheap and pay on demand. I used it for data training with machine learning techniques.

Deployment

GPU servers

Granja de servidores alternos.

PrometheanTV uses a variety of EC2 instance types to support a variety of applications and services that make up the platform. Web servers, back-end application servers, and video trans-coding servers all run on EC2 instances.

Server Proposal

Because I like having more control of my deployment, I am currently hosting this on DigitalOcean. I don't need to worry about arbitrary row limits and I can be sure that the app is always running.

Been hosting with them for a while now. Never had an issue, great support, great docs: can't beat 'em. Though I'd probably move to AWS for large scale projects.

Dirt cheap bandwidth + global network + varnish = cheapest CDN on the Internets.

All our servers are at Digital Ocean.

Cheap, very very cheap and super awesome API

Great for playgrounds.

Cheap-as-chips, quick-to-deploy, scalable/performant virtual servers for hosting. No brainer.

Primary Server Hosting

Hosts the API.

The ultimate hosting provider. Solid-state drives. Virtual Private Servers. $5 per month. Pinch me am I dreaming? If you can dream it you can build it too.

DigitalOcean provides reliable servers for CodeBee.

Good for deploying apps where you want total control over everything. You need to have DevOps and SysAdmin skills tough.

$5/mo server with no extra charge for custom domain or custom SSL certs.

Site hosting

We use DigitalOcean to host our build tools (namely Drone.io) for a cheap CI and CD server.

We'll be using this to host the server application during alpha phase.

VPS hosted here

Hosting

I use any servers with small applications.

Hosting, baby.

Hosting platform

This entire system is hosted with Digital Ocean cloud service.

Now, all my virtual machines are digital ocean droplets: easy to create, clone and destroy. SSD-fast. Affordable.

Better performance for your $$$ than EC2, no nasty surprise traffic fees when you're bootstrapped.

Cloud hosting.

We host our deployment services with DigitalOcean.

A small droplet using the one-click Ubuntu+Docker supported the Buildkite agent for CI testing via Docker Compose.

VPS Hosting Provider.

Hosting

Easy to use Droplets on DigitalOcean allow me to take snapshots of my deployed application, and is used as my main cloud host.

hosting provider

Lapzbot is hosted on Digital Ocean.

Servers

Everything is hosted on DigitalOcean

deploy target for the "develop" environment

Load balancers, DB servers and app servers.

DigitalOcean is the backbone for the whole stack. Without its cheap pricing and easy scalability this whole project wouldn't be possible.

Simple and cheap hosting with a huge value.

DigitalOcean offers us everything we need to test out specific scenarios or we expect from small-servers like our monitoring-system. We also use digital-ocean in long-term and are very satisfied with their performance and scalability.

Application server hosting, all docker deploys live here

Hosting services

We run a Blazer instance for all reporting needs; it has its own DigitalOcean droplet and is deployed automatically through mina.

DO's server management tools are quite easy and get me up and running quickly and then gets out of my way. Great pricing and SSD.

Main hosting for imgcomp.com

가장 잘 알려지고 합리적인 가격의 퍼블릭 클라우드 서비스 중 하나로 개인적인 테스트 Linux 머신 확보와 팀 프로젝트 리서치 목적으로 사용해본 경험 있음.

Backend

Our server!

DO runs our hardware.

No worries with digital ocean

We have a couple of hosts over in DO for disaster recovery purposes.

CLoud

hosting dokku containers which this app is one.

High performance SSD and reliable servers. As our underlying system. Operating budget.

Benchmarks and load tests, as well as reliability, made DigitalOcean the best match for Hndhld's infrastructure.

The balance between price and options are just plain nice

DigitalOcean is hosting https://shiro.host/, the public development testing server of shiro and all of its modules.

Production servers (Soon)

Server proposal

Storage

The Seen on Set website is hosted with Azure. We use SQL Azure for structured data persistence and Azure Web Apps is used to host the main web application.

Cloud platform to host the solution

Hosting the server and the backend

Azure is used for deploying the bot to the cloud as a fallback to hardware device deployment.

We currently host PRS and EARS on Azure as they are .Net apps, but we are currently porting these services to Scala and will be hosting them on Heroku with the other P2 SRX services.

Serviço utilizado para deploy de toda a infraestrutura do projeto. Colocamos todas as peças do serviço no azure, garantindo uma forma rápida e garantia de escalibilidade.

We are using virtual machines and now Kubernetes via their ACS (Azure Container Service) to make it scalable and highly available.

Experience with the IoT Hub and the Azure Event bus. Also using Azure as storage provider for personal backup system.

8GB, SSD VMs run the crawlers

Cloud hosting

Blackbaud makes use of Azure and my current job is with Blackbaud. Therefore, due to the free credit and the ability to reuse tools, I rely on Azure quite a bit.

My favourite cloud with all the great tools - web apps, mobile apps, storages, easy tables, blobs, app insights, cosmos DB... I think it is really usable and ergonomic. Plus point for mobile app.