Amazon Web Services (AWS) vs Beget Comparison

Why choose Amazon Web Services (AWS)

• Higher Reliability score (9/10 vs 3/10)
• Higher Integration score (10/10 vs 5/10)
• Better fit for enterprise (10/10 vs 3/10)
• Better fit for developers (9/10 vs 7/10)

Why choose Beget

• Higher Cost score (8/10 vs 5/10)
• Higher Ease of Use score (7/10 vs 4/10)
• Better fit for small business (8/10 vs 5/10)

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Pros

• The service catalogue is unusually broad, with over 200 services across 38 regions, so most infrastructure needs can be met on one platform.
• EC2 has a 99.99% region-level SLA with credits of up to 100%, and instances unavailable for more than six minutes in an hour are not billed for that hour.
• The free plan gives up to $200 in credits, and more than 30 always-free services let new teams experiment at low cost.
• Support scales from a $29 minimum up to dedicated Enterprise and Unified Operations tiers for mission-critical workloads.
• G2 rates it 4.4 across more than 17,000 reviews, and reviewers praise its scalability and global reach.

Cons

• Reviewers widely cite a steep learning curve across the console and services.
• Usage pricing is complex and can produce unexpected bills unless spend is monitored closely.
• Paid support is billed as a percentage of total AWS spend, so support costs rise with usage.
• A July 2025 billing console bug showed customers estimated charges in the billions, which hurt trust in its cost tooling.

Beget

Pros

• Very low entry prices, including a free plan and shared plans from a few hundred rubles a month
• A broad cloud catalogue: VPS, managed MySQL and PostgreSQL, S3 storage, Kubernetes, CDN and an AI gateway
• A Terraform provider and public API let developers manage VPS and S3 storage as code
• A 30-day trial on shared hosting and free automatic backups on VPS
• Support around the clock by ticket, phone and Telegram, and a user review praised the support

Cons

• A cyberattack on 2 November 2026 caused a long multi-day outage, with only part of hosting restored by 5 November
• Regions are concentrated in Russia and nearby countries, which limits global latency and compliance options
• Prices are in rubles, and the main audience and documentation are Russian-language
• Automatic VPS backups run only every few days, not daily
• The load balancer, GPU VPS and bare metal products were still listed as in development