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Re:DigitalOcean is laying off staff by Matheus28 on Friday January 17, 2020 @12:46PM (#22077087)
> I don't know how any 600 person cloud company survives in the same world as AWS these days.

They aren’t competing in the same space

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Re:DigitalOcean is laying off staff by RussianCow on Friday January 17, 2020 @01:06PM (#22077341)
They most certainly are, especially given the managed products DO has introduced recently (object storage, DB, Kubernetes, and load balancer). They definitely want a slice of Amazon's pie.
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Re:DigitalOcean is laying off staff by Matheus28 on Friday January 17, 2020 @01:16PM (#22077442)
DO is still far from being a “premium” provider. Sure they’re starting to offer a subset of AWS services, but if you compare their prices, they aren’t aiming for the same type of costumers.

Easiest way to compare is bandwidth costs: AWS/Azure/Google Cloud charge around $0.05/GB at their cheapest prices. DigitalOcean/Linode/Vultr charge around $0.005/GB (and it comes with a VPS bundled).

If you’re doing anything bandwidth intensive (several PB a month), one is viable, the other is not

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