Amazon Web Services (AWS) vs Hivelocity Comparison

Why choose Amazon Web Services (AWS)

• Has a free plan (Hivelocity does not)
• Lower estimated cost for 10 users: Free vs $10/mo
• Higher Integration score (10/10 vs 6/10)
• Higher Analytics score (8/10 vs 4/10)
• Better fit for enterprise (10/10 vs 7/10)

Why choose Hivelocity

• Higher Cost score (7/10 vs 5/10)
• Higher Ease of Use score (5/10 vs 4/10)

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.

Hivelocity

Pros

• DDoS mitigation for Layer 3 and 4 attacks is built into every bandwidth-enabled service at no extra cost.
• Every VPS and dedicated server includes at least 10TB of outbound transfer, and inbound and private traffic are free.
• Custom builds scale to four processors, 1TB of RAM and 100 drives, and GPU options are available.
• Provisioning can be automated through a REST API and a Terraform provider, and VLANs are self-service.
• Support is in-house, US-based and available 24/7, and phone reboots are free.

Cons

• VPS plans are billed monthly, with no hourly billing, and port 25 is blocked on VPS.
• No managed Kubernetes, serverless or managed database offering appeared on the pages reviewed.
• Some reviewers on G2 and Trustpilot complain of aggressive abuse handling, including instant terminations.
• Dedicated server fees are non-refundable and there is no standard money-back guarantee.
• According to VPSBenchmarks, reverse DNS changes require a support ticket and there is no built-in VPS firewall.