Stage 5 of 5 · contracts

The enterprise stack

Compliance, SSO, audit logs, contracts and dedicated support.

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One pick per job

editorial, never paid
Job Our pick Why From Also consider
VPS
Amazon EC2 Trial
Every AWS region and service, Savings Plans and Spot; egress over 100 GB a month is billed per GB. $0.017/hr Google Compute Engine , Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Compute , Exoscale Compute
PaaS
Vercel Free tier
Built around Next.js and frontend frameworks on a global CDN; Hobby is non-commercial only, so teams start on Pro. $20/mo Northflank , Cloudflare Workers (incl. Pages) , Render
Databases Seven engines including SQL Server, Oracle and Aurora, in every AWS region. $0.016/hr Aiven , Redis Cloud , Render
Transactional email
Mailgun Free tier
Plans from free to enterprise, an EU region and inbound routing. $15/mo Brevo , Twilio SendGrid Email API , Mailchimp Transactional
Email marketing No pick yet — Brevo , GetResponse , Klaviyo
Registrars No pick yet — Amazon Route 53 , DNSimple , 101domain
CDN and DNS
Akamai Ion Paid
Akamai’s web performance CDN for large sites, priced by quote. — Amazon CloudFront , Cloudflare , CacheFly
Monitoring
Datadog Free tier
Infrastructure, APM, logs, synthetics, RUM and security in one platform. $15/mo Coroot , New Relic , Rollbar
Auth
Keycloak Free tier
Free, self-hosted SAML and OIDC with no user limits, if you can run it. $0 Asgardeo , Supabase , Auth0

"From" is each tool's cheapest paid plan as published; many picks at this stage cost nothing on their free tier. Filter any category by stage for the full list.