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AWS Amplify VS Digital Ocean App Platform
AWS Amplify
AWS Amplify is a set of tools and services for building and deploying cloud-based applications. It offers a range of features for building and deploying web and mobile applications, including support for continuous deployment, serverless functions, and global CDN distribution.
AWS Amplify also integrates with a variety of other AWS services, making it easy to build and deploy applications on the AWS cloud.
Digital Ocean App Platform
Digital Ocean App Platform is a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) that allows developers to build, deploy, and scale applications on top of DigitalOcean's infrastructure.
With the Digital Ocean App Platform, you can deploy your code with a single click, and the platform will take care of the rest, including provisioning servers, configuring load balancers, and scaling your application as needed. You can deploy a variety of different types of applications to the App Platform, including containerized applications, serverless functions, and static websites.
AWS Amplify
- Global CDN-based hosting
- User registration and login, password resets, and multi-factor authentication are all supported natively
- Free tier, with extra use fees
- combines with more AWS services including AppSync, Pinpoint, and SNS
- more adaptable and suitable for feature-rich, complicated web applications
Digital Ocean App Platform
- Global CDN-based hosting
- enables the usage of unique authentication and authorisation sources
- Git-based workflow and built-in support for continuous integration and deployment allow for the customization of the pipeline with unique actions
- Pay-per-use fees are assessed according to the resources utilised
- connects to more services like GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket
- flexible, suitable for a variety of online applications, and offers more infrastructure control
| FrameWork | AWS Amplify | Digital Ocean App Platform |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | Learn more | Learn more |
| Infrastructure | AWS | DigitalOcean Cloud Cloudflare for CDN |
| Continuous deployment | ||
| Automated builds from Git | ||
| Instant rollbacks to any version | ||
| Site previews for every push | ||
| Compatible with all Static Site Generators | ||
| Notifications | Email | |
| Team Management | ||
| Custom domains | ||
| Automatic HTTPS | ||
| Rewrites & Redirects | ||
| Password Protection | ||
| Websites | Unlimited | 3 |
| Build Minutes | 1 000 minutes /month for the first 12 months | 100 minutes /month |
| Concurrent builds | N/A | 1 |
| Bandwidth | 15GB /month for the first 12 months | 1 GB /app |
| Team Members | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Build Time Per Deployment | 30 minutes Can be increased by setting a custom _BUILD_TIMEOUT env variable. | 60 minutes |
| Build Memory Limit (in MiB) | 2048 MiB Can be increased to 8196 MiB | 8192 MiB |
| Max team members before switch to custom pricing | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Git contributors have to be Team Members | ||
| Serverless Functions (API) | Node.js, Java, Go, .NET Core, Python | |
| Edge Functions | ||
| Background Functions | N/A | Workers |
| CRON Jobs | Schedule functions | |
| CLI | amplify | doctl |
| Extensions | ||
| Environment Variables | ||
| Build Logs | ||
| Build Canceling | ||
| Analytics | Integration with AWS Pinpoint | |
| Authentication | Integration with Amazon Cognito | |
| Database | Powered by AWS AppSync and Amazon DynamoDB | PostgreSQL |
| Asset Optimizations | ||
| A/B Testing | ||
| Form Handling | ||
| Data Storage | Spaces, compatible with Amazon S3 | |
| Push Notifications | ||
| Two-factor authentication | ||
| Team Logs | Possible with AWS IAM and CloudTrail | |
| SOC2 | ||
| ISO27001 | ||
| GDPR | ||
| Carbon Neutral | ||
| Carbon-free Energy | AWS promised to run on 100% renewable energy by 2025 | Not clear policy |
| Machine Learning | - |
Deployment Platforms
The Jamstack ecosystem is rapidly evolving, and with it -- we're witnessing a wider usage of static site generators, which are certainly a big part of the Jamstack technology.
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