As one of the industry leaders, AWS EC2 doesn’t need to compete on pricing offers, which in turn means that the users (that’s you!) end up paying for premium instances and lagging behind in price-performance ratio. In order to get the desired high performance you often have to pay for the higher tier, premium or specialized instance types. As a result, you end up spending hundreds or even thousands of dollars for the performance that can cost you up to x12 less with UpCloud.

In our core, we truly believe that enterprise-grade performance and reliability should be available for everyone! With this thought in mind, we developed our own storage technology by the name MaxIOPS. It’s explicitly built to give you the best I/O performance per dollar, without sacrificing any reliability!

To this day we stay the fastest cloud server provider currently available on the market. Don’t believe us? Here is a highly detailed and in-depth comparisons report of the best European cloud providers on the market from Cloud Spectator.

We all know how important it is for service or application to have enough resources in high load scenarios. For example, while using AWS EC2 you might bump into a problem that you’re locked to the resource limits that are provided by the specific instance type. What if you need extra CPUs? Your only option here is to upgrade to the next instance type since AWS EC2 doesn’t offer the flexibility to configure resourced individually. That leaves you with paying for extra resources that might never be used!

Here at UpCloud, we have freely scalable plans which allow configuring CPU, RAM and storage freely! Another great thing is that the resources are only billed by usage – if you shut down a freely scalable cloud server, you only pay for the reserved storage and IP-addresses.