Since you&#x27;re dealing in absolutes, let me return the favor; you&#x27;re being a little silly.<p>Yes, Linode beats AWS when it comes to price. On the other hand, Linode&#x27;s offer is incredibly basic and simplistic. AWS offers service after service that Linode simply doesn&#x27;t and realistically cannot.<p>Sure, you can emulate a subset of these services (and a subset of their features) using open-source software but at what price ? That&#x27;s the major flaw in your reasoning. Getting to the point where your installations are as stable and reliable as AWS&#x27;, given a large stress on the system, will cost you a lot of money and time. Directly comparing the cost of hardware access is ignoring other costs and headaches that are not very easy to estimate.<p>There&#x27;s a market for a service like Linode and there&#x27;s a market for a service like AWS. You&#x27;ve simply never worked on a project&#x2F;system that works better on AWS than on Linode. I know I couldn&#x27;t run the systems that I currently operate on Linode without multiplying the workload that is needed to maintain them.<p>Linode and AWS are competitors but there&#x27;s space in the market for both; they simply fill different niches. Establishing one as absolutely superior to the other is silly and closed-minded. A lot of people chose AWS; go and ask them why (feel free to reach out to me at nick at nasx dot io - I&#x27;ll be more than happy to talk to you).