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What both publish
| Fact | Amazon EC2 | ko |
|---|---|---|
| Integrations | G2 reviewers identify integrations with VPC, S3, CloudWatch, IAM and Auto Scaling as common parts of EC2 deployments. | ko provides a Terraform provider for using image builds in Infrastructure-as-Code workflows. |
| Purpose | Amazon EC2 provides resizable, secure compute capacity as virtual servers in the cloud. | ko is a simple, fast container image builder for Go applications. |
Amazon EC2 plans
- AWS Free Tier credits for EC2Free
- Free TierFree
- Reserved Instances—
- Savings Plans—
- Spot Instances—
- On-Demand Instances—
ko plans
- koFree
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 ko if…
ko suits developers building container images for Go applications, especially those with few dependencies on the operating system base image. Its Kubernetes, registry, and Terraform integrations may fit related build workflows.