Amazon EC2 vs Jib

Amazon EC2 plans

• AWS Free Tier credits for EC2Free
• Free TierFree
• Reserved Instances—
• Savings Plans—
• Spot Instances—
• On-Demand Instances—

Jib plans

• JibFree

Pick Amazon EC2 if…

EC2 suits teams needing configurable cloud compute for the listed application, enterprise, or specialist workloads. Its instance choice, scaling options, and storage integrations may also fit deployments with changing capacity needs.

Pick Jib if…

Jib is suited to Java developers building container images, particularly those using Maven, Gradle, or Java libraries. Its daemonless build method may suit projects that do not want a Docker daemon in the image-building process.