Alternatives to Amazon's Cloud Services (AWS)

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Amazon AWS Landing Page

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Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services offers reliable, scalable, and inexpensive cloud computing services. Free to join, pay only for what you use.

In the past, I've been an enthusiastic user of AWS, but my concerns about complexity, cost and more recently ethical issues with the company have led me to explore other cloud alternatives. While it offers an increasingly sophisticated array of services for many kinds of development requirements, it's not always the simplest, fastest, or most affordable option. For example, I've found that it's faster and more economical to host my WordPress sites on Digital Ocean than on AWS; last year I wrote on Envato Tuts+ about using the Digital Ocean API to launch and manage instances.

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Microsoft Azure Landing Page

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Microsoft Azure

Windows Azure and SQL Azure enable you to build, host and scale applications in Microsoft datacenters.

If you want to read a brief comparison of all three of these major services, check out AWS vs. Google Cloud vs. Microsoft Azure: How do they compare and which one is right for your business? (CBR).

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Google Compute Engine Landing Page

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Google Compute Engine

Google Compute Engine is not just fast. It’s Google fast.

Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Compute are the two biggest competitors to AWS attempting to offer a growing stack of service offerings.

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Rackspace Landing Page

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Rackspace

More than 100,000 businesses trust Rackspace with their hosting and cloud computing. Get cloud, managed and hybrid hosting all backed by Fanatical Support.

When I used Amazon's Simple Email Service (SES), I found it difficult to configure, monitor and maintain. Ultimately, I found Rackspace's Mailgun to be much simpler and more reliable. This is often the case when you switch away from AWS's breadth of features which get limited usability attention and native language customer support and to startups that are focused and attentive. Amazon has too large a focus on development and not enough on product design and product management—you can see this in weaknesses across AWS's user experience.

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Joyent Landing Page

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Joyent

Joyent provides cloud infrastructure solutions and big data analytics that power real-time web and mobile applications.

I first used Joyent back in 2007 when they offered free hosting for the emerging Facebook application platform. It's grown a lot since then to offer a variety of cloud services that you can run on your hardware or theirs.

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