We are using that for one of our customers that insisted on using it. It works but it's expensive and a lot of their managed solutions are a bit outdated. Last

We are using that for one of our customers that insisted on using it. It works but it's expensive and a lot of their managed solutions are a bit outdated. Last time I checked they still offered Elasticsearch on a version pre licensing change that is definitely no longer supported. Their support and documentation are a bit of a mess as well. I got stuck a few times on things that just weren't working where you had to do some non intuitive thing to get things going again. My strategy with them is to keep things simple and not let them manage anything I care about. So, I run my own Elasticsearch cluster there. Basically it's just Openstack with some customizations. The rest of our customers run on gcloud. I'm currently eyeing Hetzner as I want to lower our hosting cost. But the point of Openstack is that it's generally fine and that the feature set it offers is a commodity. AWS definitely overcharges for this stuff. If you do the math, most of their vms will cost you the hardware it runs on within months typically. Amazon runs this hardware for many years. In some cases they host multiple vms on them. Their margin on this stuff is huge. That's why they are so rich. You pay for the convenience and the uptime of course. But undercutting their pricing profitably isn't that hard.