This is why a company i worked at about 3 years ago switched to AWS. I suggested using Digital Ocean and argued that we didn't need the complexity of AWS. But the CEO (who is so tech-illiterate that he struggles to send basic email, I am not even joking) has heard that everyone else uses AWS, so he wanted to use it too. Nobody was going to stop this guy from switching over to AWS. He wanted his company to rank among the cool kids that was built on AWS. He had heard of AWS and he trusts Amazon. He has never heard of Digital Ocean. His un-warranted opinion on switching to AWS was not worth fighting, so I let him switch as he desired. If any problem had ever come up with Digital Ocean, he would have pointed fingers at me and said "this wouldn't have happened with AWS, because they are AMAZON!".

And thus is why one small company dumps $1,000 a month into AWS when it could dump about $250 a month into Digital Ocean for comparable results. I know these are small numbers for many people on here, but it is a good illustration.

For what its worth. I was able to justify getting an AWS Certification because of this, which has been surprisingly helpful to have on my resume, even with companies that don't use AWS. It seems to be a fairly respected certification that demonstrates knowledge of cloud computing in general.