Digital Ocean is my favorite alternative. They have all the basic services you need and fantastic APIs, documentation and tutorials to help. They're also pretty cheap and there's tons of coupons out there to get free credits to get started.

I used them in the past but moved away when they dropped opensuse support. I may have to try them again

I see this question pop up a lot here and other communities, so I started curating a list of alternatives here:

https://www.curabase.com/org/curabase/alternatives-to-aws

DISCLAIMER: The linked site is a side project of mine. I will revisit this post and add the ones I missed.

Would openstack belong in your list anywhere? Or would that be another category, the people who host openstack clouds.

Great question -- I suppose it should link directly to the openstack sub-projects that are analogous to the AWS offering.

So, open-nebula for EC2, right?

Actually, I am not aware about Amazon, because I had never used their services.

Yes, there are several good alternatives available for AWS in the market. If you want to grow your business rapidly then you can go with DomainRacer.

I am using DomainRacer web hosting services from the last 1 year. DomainRacer provides the best services according to your requirement.

DomainRacer is a global hosting company and they provide services to you as per your needs.

So, I strongly recommended DomainRacer. Because it gives a reasonable cost.

nothing like AWS, but Hetzner is great for self hosting self managed; some would call it the "old way".

with proxmox, of course :)

Digital Ocean would get my vote, long time customer and I love their services.

However they don't provide as much as AWS - But if you're after the basics compute/database/storage/load-balance, then they've got you covered.

Digital Ocean, HostGator, Vultr (backed by AWS I believe), or Cloudflare (depending on what services you need). If I had to choose one I’d go with Digital Ocean.

Vultr is not backed by AWS. They’re a brand of a company called Choopa, which from what I have heard got it’s start hosting a lot of porn. We have run various things on Vultr and always had good luck.

For what exactly?

AWS is a gigantic bundle of services. So the real question is: what you want to do?

The only real answer to such a nonspecific question is “Azure or GCP.” But to be honest, if the generic answer is what you’re looking for, you’d have been better off asking a search engine.

You should come back with a more specific ask, e.g. “I want to run my PHP application with a MySQL database, what do you use as an AWS alternative?”

Just hosting, DNS, load balancing, managed DB. There's plenty more options than just those 2 though, I thought it would be good to hear what other opinions on the subject are. Whether it's a PHP application with a MySQL database or a Spring boot application with postgres is really an irrelevant detail, hosting is generic enough to support either case.

What do you want to an AWS alternative for?

And what is it about Amazon you can't support? Because the obvious general answers to your question also share many of the traits that people get upset with Amazon about.

Are you worried they are spying on you? Exploiting your information? Or that they will cut you off if they percieve you a threat to one of their many sub companies?

They wanted me to moderate my users better and I said no =(

moderate your users how ?

It’s a joke about Parler