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What would your AWS bill cost on DigitalOcean?
Net of the engineer time to run it. Drop in one month of your AWS cost export and get every instance, volume, bucket and managed service priced on DigitalOcean list prices, every service graded by effort, and a one-off cost with a payback month.
- Every server matched to a real type
- Standby, backups and engineer hours included
- A likely range, not a single number
Three modelled AWS accounts on DigitalOcean
Typical service mixes at three sizes, run through the same estimator as a real report with default assumptions. Not customer data.
Early-stage SaaS
A few web nodes, a Postgres pair, Redis, S3 and a CDN.
−$26,649 a year
more than today on a $2,981/mo bill: engineer time outweighs the hardware saving
Scale-up on Kubernetes
EKS, several Postgres instances, Kafka, OpenSearch and tens of TB of egress.
$53,109 a year
kept from a $24,950/mo bill, 18% less, engineer time included
Data-heavy platform
Hundreds of TB in storage, Redshift, streaming, a GPU box and heavy egress.
$233,103 a year
kept from a $79,640/mo bill, 24% less, engineer time included
What moves, and what it becomes on DigitalOcean
The services a typical AWS bill is made of, graded by effort: 4 Easy, 10 Moderate, 2 Hard. On a real report each line carries your own cost and the ratio or usage model behind the figure.
| Service | Effort | On DigitalOcean |
|---|---|---|
| EC2 | Easy | DigitalOcean Droplets or DigitalOcean dedicated-CPU Droplets |
| S3 | Easy | DigitalOcean Spaces (S3-compatible) |
| RDS | Moderate | PostgreSQL / MySQL on DigitalOcean Droplets (Patroni or replicas, pgBackRest), or a DigitalOcean managed database |
| Data Transfer | Easy | DigitalOcean included traffic |
| Lambda | Moderate | DigitalOcean Functions / App Platform, or long-running services on DigitalOcean Droplets |
| CloudFront | Moderate | Spaces CDN or Cloudflare |
| DynamoDB | Hard | ScyllaDB or PostgreSQL (JSONB) with a data-model rewrite |
| ElastiCache | Moderate | Valkey on DigitalOcean Droplets, or a DigitalOcean managed database |
| EKS | Moderate | DigitalOcean Kubernetes (DOKS) |
| Elastic Load Balancing | Easy | DigitalOcean Load Balancer or HAProxy / Traefik |
| CloudWatch | Moderate | Prometheus + Grafana + Loki on DigitalOcean Droplets |
| MSK | Moderate | Redpanda on DigitalOcean Droplets, or a DigitalOcean managed database |
| OpenSearch Service | Moderate | Self-hosted OpenSearch cluster, or a DigitalOcean managed database |
| Redshift | Hard | ClickHouse on DigitalOcean dedicated-CPU Droplets |
| SES | Moderate | Postmark / Mailgun / Resend, or self-hosted Postal with clean IPs |
| Bedrock | Moderate | Anthropic / OpenAI / Mistral APIs directly, or open models on GPU DigitalOcean dedicated-CPU Droplets |
Read the AWS worked example for a full file taken end to end. Easy: a drop-in replacement. Moderate: the same software, self-hosted, so you patch, back up and fix it. Hard: no equivalent; redesign it, buy a SaaS, or leave it where it is. The full map, with every ratio and its derivation, is on the model page.
About DigitalOcean
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A US developer cloud priced in USD, the same in every region. Droplets, managed Kubernetes, managed Postgres, MySQL, Redis and Kafka, Spaces object storage with a CDN included, and a pooled transfer allowance. Choose DigitalOcean when managed databases and Kubernetes from a familiar, well-documented provider matter more than the lowest price per server.
DigitalOcean list prices, 18 Oct 2026
- Smallest cloud server (1 vCPU, 1 GB)
- $6/mo
- Block storage
- $0.1 per GB-month
- Object storage
- $5 for 0.25 TB
- Outbound traffic
- $10.24 per TB above the allowance
USD list prices. Full price list and source.
How to get your AWS export
- 1Export one month: a CUR 2.0 or FOCUS Data Export, or a Cost Explorer CSV.
- 2Drop it on the calculator.
- 3Read the net figure and change any assumption.
The exact clicks, console links and a sample file to compare against are under “Where do I get this file?” on the calculator.
Questions we get asked
- What file do I upload?
- One month of a cost export: an AWS Cost and Usage Report (CUR 2.0 or legacy, CSV or Parquet) or a Cost Explorer CSV, a Google Cloud BigQuery billing export saved as CSV, or an Azure Cost Management export. “Where do I get this file?” next to the upload box has the exact clicks for each.
- Is my data uploaded?
- No. The file is read inside this browser tab by DuckDB-WASM and never leaves it; you can watch the network tab while it runs. The only thing we ever receive is the address you type if you email yourself the link, plus anonymous counts of what was used.
- How accurate is this?
- Servers, storage and traffic are priced from your actual usage at list prices, so that part is as good as the price list. Managed services without a usage model (queues, search, analytics) are priced by a ratio from our service map and carry ±50%. Engineer time is an assumption you can edit. The report shows what share of the figure is priced from usage and gives a likely range rather than a single number. A Cost Explorer CSV has service totals only, so hosts are estimated from spend, roughly ±25%.
- Can I move only part of it?
- Yes, and that is often the right first step. Storage and egress-heavy workloads move easily and save the most per hour of effort; a managed database or a serverless stack can stay where it is. Filter the services table by grade to see what moves cleanly.
- What about compliance and latency?
- Every destination publishes GDPR documentation and most hold ISO 27001; SOC 2 reports and HIPAA agreements are rarer, so check that provider’s trust page before planning. On latency: for European users, moving from an EU hyperscaler region to Falkenstein, Gravelines, Paris or Amsterdam changes little; for US users choose a US location. A CDN in front stays as it is; the report prices it separately.
Your AWS bill on DigitalOcean, in under a minute.
One month of a cost export is enough. It is read in your browser and never uploaded; only the number comes out. If the honest answer is “stay”, the report says so.