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This 1000%. It was amazing how much more comfortable I was with my suite of VPS's when I moved them from AWS to Digital Ocean! I always describe on-boarding with AWS as "drinking from a firehouse". There is so much to understand and it is hard to tell what you should actually care about. DO, on the other hand, has a much simpler set of services that seem much more applicable to 'non-enterprise' usage. (Plus the documentation for DO is great!)

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I have a recruitment problem. If I tell recruits “We use AWS”, they’ll be happy the be waterboarded when trying to do something, they’ll have the feeling of being in connection with the rest of the world, preparing their resume for the future.

If I tell them “I have Digital Ocean, I maintain the load balancer myself, the database myself, ELK myself, and you’ll be expert in Postgres, Ansible, Nginx and Debian”, I sound like an old fart.

The future for them in AWS is a click-on-the-button deployment and they’ll master nothing.

Amazon tried to emulate Digital Ocean with Lightsail.

It does feel a bit like a Cinderella service however. The versions of the managed databases you can connect are sometimes several years old.

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