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Why I chose DigitalOcean over AWS for OpenClaw comes down to one thing: matching infrastructure complexity to project stage. When building AI infrastructure in 2026, the default answer seems obvious: use Amazon Web Services (AWS). After all, it dominates the cloud market: It powers startups, governments, enterprises, and hundreds of other services. So when I started building a simple OpenClaw project, AWS seemed like the natural choice.  But I didn’t choose AWS. I chose DigitalOcean instead. Here’s why. What Is OpenClaw? Before explaining the infrastructure decision, it’s important to understand what I was deploying. OpenClaw (formerly known as Clawdbot or [...]