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 | Amazon RDS and Aurora Trial | 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 | — | Brevo , GetResponse , Klaviyo | ||
| Registrars | — | 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 |