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AWS vs Vercel

Vercel is $10/mo cheaper.

That’s $120/year.

AWS logo: Amazon's cloud: virtual machines, object storage, Lambda, and managed databases.
AWS logo: Amazon's cloud: virtual machines, object storage, Lambda, and managed databases.

AWS

Est. $30/mo

Amazon's cloud: virtual machines, object storage, Lambda, and managed databases.

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Pros of AWS

  • There is a service for most infrastructure problems

  • A lot of docs, libraries, and job listings assume it

  • It can grow past a single app

Cons of AWS

  • The invoice is hard to predict

  • IAM permissions take real time to get right

Vercel logo: Hosting that builds a preview URL for every Git push, especially Next.js apps.
Vercel logo: Hosting that builds a preview URL for every Git push, especially Next.js apps.

Vercel

Est. $20/mo

Hosting that builds a preview URL for every Git push, especially Next.js apps.

Try it

Pros of Vercel

  • A branch gets a URL without extra setup

  • Next.js features work without a custom server

  • Connects to the GitHub repo directly

Cons of Vercel

  • Long-running workers and custom VMs are a poor fit

  • The bill climbs once you leave the hobby limits