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AWS can be easy and can be confusing. If you want to use it like DO/Linode it isn't hard. Just fire up an EC2 server and you are good to go. It can get confus

• Killah911 11y ago
  You forgot the bit about configuring a million options before launching an EC2 instance, the persistence (hard drive) supposedly disappearing if you shut down the matchine, not to mention, the SSH key that you MUST set up in order to access the server. DO is significantly more intuitive and faster.
  • viraptor 11y ago
    EC2 is not persistent. It uses ephemeral storage and they're pretty clear about it. The launch is not that complicated - it's 7 pages, most of which you can ignore to go with defaults. You're interested in what you're running, what size, network security, and storage - that's about it for the start. Maybe you need to just take a break for a while... anger and billed services don't mix well :) Alternatively, if you're just testing, make sure you click "free tier only" at the beginning.
  • jordansmith 11y ago
    Haha yea that is true. DO is much easier to just get a VPS up and running asap. But imo EC2 servers aren't that hard after you do it your first time or two. Most of the defaults work and I always setup SSH key on DO servers anyway. Then you get the benefit down the road of being able to link all of the other services together when it is time to scale up a bit.
• Killah911 11y ago
  You forgot the bit about configuring a million options before launching an EC2 instance, the persistence (hard drive) supposedly disappearing if you shut down the matchine, not to mention, the SSH key that you MUST set up in order to access the server. DO is significantly more intuitive and faster.
• Killah911 11y ago
  You forgot the bit about configuring a million options before launching an EC2 instance, the persistence (hard drive) supposedly disappearing if you shut down the matchine, not to mention, the SSH key that you MUST set up in order to access the server. DO is significantly more intuitive and faster.