If you ask me, digital ocean: top notch UX, good performance, good offering of services (k8s, load balancing, managed databases). A reasonable and nice service.

If you ask me, digital ocean: top notch UX, good performance, good offering of services (k8s, load balancing, managed databases). A reasonable and nice service. I use it for some small businesses of mine but I wouldn't use it for a medium company. I would just get some servers from smaller provider in different data centers and deploy whatever I need. AWS, was definitely the service that convinced everyone they needed the cloud. Most of the companies I've seen move to aws are just wasting money, don't need the scalability and are massively over-provisioned. A few unicorns needs the cloud's powers to scale massively now - and, given how much it costs, they'll end up rewriting it anyway to save hundreds of millions a few years down the line.