There are lots of apples to oranges here. You can't compare say a Linode or Digital Ocean to an AWS/Azure. One of boxes for experimentation may make sense, I wo

There are lots of apples to oranges here. You can't compare say a Linode or Digital Ocean to an AWS/Azure. One of boxes for experimentation may make sense, I would not run prod though. Also, have you seen the network performance of the smaller providers? (obviously that comes at a cheaper cost too)