I just want to note that of the three providers you mention, they're really not providing equivalent services (GCE is definitely much different than EC2, so doe

I just want to note that of the three providers you mention, they're really not providing equivalent services (GCE is definitely much different than EC2, so does Azure and AWS ecosystem). So depending on your stacks, it should be an obvious choices (I can't say, because I don't know what you are doing). Now, between Digital Ocean, Linode, Softlayer etc. (which are doing more of the same things), things got a bit muddier.