I find digital ocean to be much simpler to use. you spin up a linux box, if you need a second one you can do it almost immediately. AWS is more powerful but muc

I find digital ocean to be much simpler to use. you spin up a linux box, if you need a second one you can do it almost immediately. AWS is more powerful but much more complicated. I prefer to put my projects on DO and if they scale too much then I would consider using AWS (hasn't happened yet!). No experience with linode.