Ask HN: Enterprise companies building on Linode, Digital Ocean, others?

I'm trying to help my company move more into the cloud for greenfield projects, and while I know that not all clouds are the same such that the only thing that separates them is price, the price discrepency between something like a linode vm or a digital ocean vm (albeit with shared cpu's but then again so are GCE's VM's -- shared cpus) and one on GCE or Azure or AWS is close to 5-7x in price. A 8GB ram, 4 core, 96GB SSD, 4TB bandwidth linode VM costs 40 bucks max a month, whereas something similar on Azure or GCE would be closer to 200.

What linode or the others might not have is all the tools that an AWS or GCE or Azure give but if that's not needed (if not yet) to me, it makes sense to build on a linode or digital ocean than an AWS or Azure. Are companies doing so, if so who? Care to share any experiences?