Not sure if I'm missing something here, but the pricing seems quite high (in relation to DO's other products and competition). For example, if we take 8GB ram

Not sure if I'm missing something here, but the pricing seems quite high (in relation to DO's other products and competition). For example, if we take 8GB ram node, that's $120 p/m. Add in 2 standby nodes, and we add another £160 p/m. That equates to $280 per month. AWS RDS, by comparison, is about $260 p/m for an rds.m5.large instance (also 8GB ram) on multi AZ. This can be reduced further via reserved instances. Admittedly, the DO has more processing power, but all-in-all, I don't get this pricing at all. I was very excited about this, but the pricing is putting on the brakes.