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> The second you want a network that is private to you or any sort of hosted solutions for stuff like SQL databases, DigitalOcean folds. Can you explain what

• eropple 9y ago
  EC2 has VPC, a software-defined networking solution with route tables, subnetting, ACLs, the nice abstraction of security groups, and (importantly) the ability to peer separate VPCs, across multiple accounts. DigitalOcean does not have VPC; they've had a backplane of "private network IPs" isolated merely to all DigitalOcean customers. This month they instead changed their underlying system behavior (WTF) to isolate their private IPs to your account. So they also just broke that for their customers. On top of that--can you firewall/segment off that private network to certain machines? Nah. Can you talk to other customers' machines over this private network. Nah. It's a bad, partial solution for limited use cases. AWS also has a managed solution for MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, Postgres, and MS SQL. DigitalOcean has an emoji shrug.