From personal experience: - AWS seems to have more stability issues than Digital Ocean and their status page doesn't seem to reflect reality. - AWS support is

From personal experience: - AWS seems to have more stability issues than Digital Ocean and their status page doesn't seem to reflect reality. - AWS support is a total black hole. Digital Ocean is pretty responsive. - Digital Ocean's UI is miles ahead of AWS's - AWS Analysis Paralysis - too many options, hard to understand the differences.