When comparing Amazon EC2 vs F(x) Data Cloud, the Slant community recommends F(x) Data Cloud for most people. In the question“What are the best VPS providers?” F(x) Data Cloud is ranked 4th while Amazon EC2 is ranked 16th. The most important reason people chose F(x) Data Cloud is:
If you wanna host your database on the cloud server, you can have both the option as Database as a Service (Pre-installed and managed database) or Infrastructure as a Service (If you want to have root access and manually want to install the database).
Specs
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Pros
Pro One-year free tier
You get 750 hours per month of free t2.micro usage for the first year.
Pro New t2.nano tier makes it cost competitive
AWS has typically been much more expensive but the new tier brings them inline with a $5 per months starter.
Pro Excellent feature-set
The tools and features available on AWS are mind blowing. From blob store through load balancers, queuing and databases just for starters.
Pro Option for hosting the database service on the cloud server.
If you wanna host your database on the cloud server, you can have both the option as Database as a Service (Pre-installed and managed database) or Infrastructure as a Service (If you want to have root access and manually want to install the database).
Pro High uptime
All the cloud services are with 99.95% uptime.
Pro Cost-friendly
F(x) Data Cloud provides public cloud server at a cheap price. The basic plan starts at $1.99/month.
Pro Great Support
Typically answers in minute.
Pro Provides high configurations
They provide 32 vCPU, 128 GB RAM, 2000 GB SSD, 9 TB network. For large businesses, high configurations are required.
Cons
Con Part of large infrastructure
Being part of huge Amazon services infrastructure, EC2 burrows you into bureaucracy of a large company, advertising other Amazon services, and making simple things look complicated.
Con No GPU provided
GPU is not provided.