Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Alternatives

DigitalOcean is a global cloud infrastructure provider with industry-low bandwidth pricing, and with generous quotas and add-on transfer at just $.01/GiB. With DigitalOcean you can run infrastructure near your customers and scale applications that run simultaneously on multiple servers. DigitalOcean is loved by developers and business across the globe, and is currently the third-largest hosting company for web-facing applications.

Heroku is a platform as a service (PaaS) built especially for applications developers. When Heroku first launched in 2007 it was a platform dedicated to deploy and host Ruby applications. Today the offering has broadened and allows developers to launch applications for most languages, frameworks and technologies in a matter of minutes with the help of Heroku Buildpacks. There are currently over 5,400 Heroku Buildpacks in the Heroku Elements Marketplace, that can be used by developers to speed up deployment and saftley host their applications online.

With DigitalOcean App Platform you can build, deploy, and scale apps quickly using a simple, fully managed solution. Deploy code by simply pointing to a GitHub repo and let App Platform do the heavy lifting of managing the infrastructure, app runtimes and dependencies. 

Vultr is a cloud hosting provider that provides affordable virtual private servers at an hourly rate. It's easy to get started with Vultr, and the setup of servers take only a matter of minutes. The Vultr control panel also makes server management simple and intuitive allowing you to perform common tasks such as a ordering servers, managing backups, and adjusting access control.

Red Hat OpenShift is the hybrid cloud platform that contains a family of containerization software products developed by Red Hat. With OpenShift you can manage With OpenShift you can manage Kubernetes containers with full-stack automated operations to manage hybrid cloud, multi-cloud, and edge deployments. Part of OpenShift is the flagship product is the OpenShift Container Platform, an on-premises platform as a service built around Docker containers orchestrated and managed by Kubernetes on a foundation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

UpCloud is a European cloud server provider located in Helsinki, Finland. UpCloud offers faster-than-SSD performance reaching 100,000 IOPS and 100% uptime SLA. With UpCloud you can quickly and easily spin up self-managed cloud instances for as low as $5/month. The performance oriented cloud servers provided by UpCloud allow you and your team to focus on managing the server and building your product, without having to worry about the infrastructure ever again.

OpenStack is an IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service) and cloud computing platform developed by the OpenStack Foundation. The project was first started in 2010 as a joint venture by Rackspace Hosting and NASA. OpenStack both free and open-source and allows you to create public or private clouds with distributed virtual servers. The OpenStack dashboard can be used by administrators of the cloud to empower user, provision resources and track the overall health of the network and infrastructure.