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Amazon EC2

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Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to Amazon EC2

OpenStack AWS Lambda Amazon ECS Sandstorm.io AWS Elastic Beanstalk Serverspace.io Qovery Amazon SQS GitHub Pages Helm.sh

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to Amazon EC2 are OpenStack, AWS Lambda, and Amazon ECS. One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.
  1. OpenStack software controls large pools of compute, storage, and networking resources throughout a datacenter, managed through a dashboard or via the OpenStack API.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Cloud Computing #Cloud Infrastructure #VPS 2 social mentions

  2. Automatic, event-driven compute service
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Cloud Computing #Cloud Hosting #Backend As A Service 245 social mentions

  3. Amazon EC2 Container Service is a highly scalable, high-performance​ container management service that supports Docker containers.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Developer Tools #Containers As A Service #Cloud Computing 46 social mentions

  4. Take control of your web by running your own personal cloud server with Sandstorm.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Cloud Computing #Control Panels #VPS 27 social mentions

  5. Quickly deploy and manage applications in the AWS cloud.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Cloud Hosting #Cloud Computing #Backend As A Service 37 social mentions

  6. Serverspace offers automated, simple, and affordable cloud infrastructure to everyone. Get started building your cool digital stuff right now.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    • Paid
    • $4.95 / Monthly (1 GB RAM, 1 vCPU, 25 GB SSD, 50 Mbps Bandwidth)

    #VPS #Cloud Computing #Cloud Storage 3 social mentions

  7. 7
    Create production-like environments in your AWS account; Compatible with all your AWS services!
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    • Free
    • Free Trial
    • $1.0 / Monthly ($49 per user per month )

    #Environment As A Service #Internal Developer Platform #Continuous Deployment 13 social mentions

  8. Amazon Simple Queue Service is a fully managed message queuing service.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Data Integration #Stream Processing #Web Service Automation 64 social mentions

  9. A free, static web host for open-source projects on GitHub
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Static Site Generators #Cloud Computing #Blogging 466 social mentions

  10. 10
    The Kubernetes Package Manager
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Developer Tools #DevOps Tools #Containers As A Service 134 social mentions

  11. Continuous deployment cloud hosting
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Cloud Hosting #Web Hosting #Wordpress Hosting 35 social mentions

  12. 12
    The ideal platform for developers. Focus on code, not config.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Cloud Infrastructure #Cloud Computing #Continuous Deployment

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