AWS Cloud Alternatives (January 2026)

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Amazon EC2 provides secure, resizable compute in the cloud, offering the broadest choice of processor, storage, networking, OS, and purchase model.

Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) is a cost-effective, flexible, and scalable email service provider that allows developers to send email from within any application.

Amazon S3 is cloud object storage with industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance. S3 is ideal for data lakes, mobile applications, backup and restore, archival, IoT devices, ML, AI, and analytics.

Amazon Lightsail is an easy-to-use virtual private server (VPS) that offers simple management of cloud resources such as containers, at low, predictable prices.

Amazon Redshift is a fast, fully managed cloud data warehouse that makes it simple and cost-effective to analyze all your data.

Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) is an easy to use, high-performance cloud Storage Area Network (SAN).

The AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) provides a unified tool to manage your AWS services directly from the command line.

Driven by the need for greater productivity, lower costs, and more recently being able to scale a remote workforce, organizations around the world are moving their IT workloads to the cloud. Planning a move to the cloud requires upfront pre-migration planning; this is as important as the implementation itself. But it can be daunting to know where to start or what needs to be in place for a successful migration. The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud Adoption Readiness Tool (CART) can help provide insight into your level of readiness and what you can do to improve it.