EBS w/ SSD doesn't have I/O request fees attached. DO is still a better deal overall. For crazy dynamic workloads with moderate bandwidth usage, AWS makes good

EBS w/ SSD doesn't have I/O request fees attached. DO is still a better deal overall. For crazy dynamic workloads with moderate bandwidth usage, AWS makes good financial sense. Also, S3 and SQS are phenomenal. (As are DynamoDB, Redshift, Lambda, and Kinesis, but these can get expensive fast.) AWS really has simply awesome technology, and they can afford to charge what they want for it, and I do believe they strike a pretty good balance most of the time. Also, the Free Tier is really very nice and fair. I'd just like to see the cost model get a bit more transparent and a bit lower in fees, especially on the low end.