Amazon EC2 comparisons
Amazon EC2 is compared head-to-head with Antihost, Google Compute Engine and Azure Virtual Machines and more: 7 head-to-heads in Cloud Hosting, each with the specs and prices we checked.
Amazon EC2 head-to-head
- Amazon EC2 vs Antihost
- Amazon EC2 vs Google Compute Engine
- Amazon EC2 vs Azure Virtual Machines
- Amazon EC2 vs Oracle Cloud Compute
- Amazon EC2 vs Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Amazon EC2 vs Alibaba Cloud Elastic Compute Service (ECS)
- Amazon EC2 vs Tencent Cloud CVM
Amazon EC2 vs each of them
| # | Tool | Free plan | Paid from | Regions available | Autoscaling | Load balancing | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | Amazon EC2 | No | 39 | Yes | Yes | 9.4 | |
| 1 | Antihost | No | $2.99/mo | 6 | 9.7 | ||
| 3 | Google Compute Engine | Yes | Yes | Yes | 9.3 | ||
| 4 | Azure Virtual Machines | No | Yes | Yes | 9.2 | ||
| 5 | Oracle Cloud Compute | Yes | Free | 50 | Yes | Yes | 9.0 |
| 6 | Amazon Web Services (AWS) | 8.9 | |||||
| 7 | Alibaba Cloud Elastic Compute Service (ECS) | No | Yes | Yes | 8.8 | ||
| 8 | Tencent Cloud CVM | 22 | Yes | Yes | 8.7 |
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