You can do the same on DO, it's just slightly more involved, almost certainly less resiliant and they supply less PaaS options. In fact as an IaaS if you throw

You can do the same on DO, it's just slightly more involved, almost certainly less resiliant and they supply less PaaS options. In fact as an IaaS if you throw kubernetes at it, run ceph and put a little effort into getting autoscaling, then you have a knock-off cloud. Amazons value is that it's cheaper for a small company than hiring the people who can do this well and you can hire a generalist to glue it all together.