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My guess is Amazon wants to rope people into their ecosystem, and they've recognized that many startups have opted for the cheaper VPS providers in their bootst

My guess is Amazon wants to rope people into their ecosystem, and they've recognized that many startups have opted for the cheaper VPS providers in their bootstrap days. This is an intriguing move and one that I'm sure DigitalOcean, Linode, and Vultr have been fearing may happen. The pricing is on par with these alternatives in the VPS space.

slig 10y ago
> The pricing is on par with these alternatives in the VPS space. Linode offers the double of the RAM for the same price for $10, $20 and $40 VPSs.
- Someone1234 10y ago
  A lot of people, myself included, don't seriously consider Linode anymore given their security problems (March 2012, 2013) and infrastructure problems (Dec-Jan 2015-16).
  - amq 10y ago
    The biggest show stopper for me is the lack of block storage, while both DO and Vultr have it.
    - juliand 10y ago
      They do, however, offer over 2x disk space in some of their plans. 80GB in LightSale and DO vs 192GB in Linode
dictum 10y ago
Digital Ocean's pricing has remained the same since 2013. It'd be nice if they bumped the $20 plan to 3GB RAM (or go full Linode at 4GB)
- amq 10y ago
  I wish: $20 4GB RAM 2 CPUs $40 8GB RAM 4 CPUs Some VPS providers already have similar offerings.