AWS or Digital Ocean?
What will be the best choice in case of costing as well as managing by single developer? 😅
I'm having difficulty to choose one for a long-lasting project of mine. Kindly, your suggestion with explanation will be helpful to me.
Technology: Spring Framework
Thank you.

I would go for Digital Ocean for application servers, database / database cluster, vpc. They are easier to set up and spin up / spin down. And it's all just a lot simpler but they offer less services.

Go AWS for cloud storage, serverless workers, sqs, sns, and other extra type features. The breadth of offerings at AWS is its strength

You need to share some details about what you want out of the provider. I am not very familiar with Digital Ocean, but my guess is that they are in a different league to AWS, Azure and the like when it comes to what services they offer. Are you just after basic hosting?

AWS if you need any scale. DO may cost 50% less, but you hit the limit of its technical capabilities pretty quickly. Even autoscaling is a chore, and without it, you'll see that cost savings evaporate rather quickly.

We dont know the complexity of the project, if its a simple one, heroku is mostly free.

Spring Framework is kinda irrelevant here.

Are you autoscaling? Just spinning up a server and leaving it be? Using containers exclusively? Looking to massively horizontally scale? Can't horizontally scale, so just need a powerful machine? Does it have a storage layer? If so, what? Is reliability or cost a primary concern? Etc.

@justamuslimguy I agree. I hired a dev to create cicd to build, test, deploy, and host on aws. It was a mess.

I switched to Bitbucket for CICD and Digital ocean to host. A lot simpler and cheaper when getting started.

Sorry, I didn't think I will get these much replies. 😅

- It's monolithic app. But, my goal is to migrate it to micro-service later as part of my learning...
- It will be a up & running real world project - can be called startup.
- My goal is to learn & implement things.
- So, I've planned to use AWS, deployed on EC2 already to learn AWS. Using Postgres of Heroku. 😅

My question, If I continue like this - as an indie developer, single person - will that be cost-effective, time-worthy in the long run..

or, Digital Ocean will give me less headache or so..

as well as improving my skills.

Sorry, If I failed to explain. I'm not that good at talking. 😅