As a user of AWS and DO (the former professionally, and the latter personally), I wonder if it's even worth competing against AWS. AWS is vast, vast: services

As a user of AWS and DO (the former professionally, and the latter personally), I wonder if it's even worth competing against AWS. AWS is vast, vast: services built upon services that can replace almost all physical infrastructure. Push-button deployment. But it comes at a cost: the cost. AWS's pricing model varies from very good to totally a flip of the coin: it can take hours to price-estimate infrastructure, which includes the data transfer fees that vary depending on how and where, and so forth. DO is cost-competitive, so much so that until not that long ago they had totally free data transfer costs. The question is, can they build a niche and not get eaten up by AWS going forward. Perhaps they're already doing that somehow. I just wish I could recommend them professionally as a consultant.