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Re:Amazon met with startups about investing, then launched c... by jasonjayr on Thursday July 23, 2020 @05:39PM (#23932598)
Do you have evidence of this claim re DO?

I worked with a DO on an technical issue, and they were steadfastly against me granting them temporary access to our servers even though it would have made the issue easier to diagnose. Cloud provider that verifiably get caught doing this will quickly lose the trust of all their large customers

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Re:Amazon met with startups about investing, then launched c... by webo on Thursday July 23, 2020 @06:09PM (#23933034)
DO doesn't have a great track record for customer trust. I run personal workload but couldn't recommend it over AWS to a larger company.

  - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23117660
  - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20064169
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Re:Amazon met with startups about investing, then launched c... by StopHammoTime on Thursday July 23, 2020 @08:26PM (#23934319)
Sales != Engineering (in regards to the first one), AWS have had similar issues. The second one wasn't good.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/aws-error-exposed-godaddy-serv...

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Re:Amazon met with startups about investing, then launched c... by hinkley on Thursday July 23, 2020 @09:58PM (#23934899)
There comes a point where your pricing is so opaque and confusing that it's indistinguishable from lying.

Those people are jealous of AWS.

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Re:Amazon met with startups about investing, then launched c... by danaris on Saturday July 25, 2020 @09:32AM (#23949042)
Reading through that second one, while the inciting incident was certainly pretty bad, their eventual response was, to my mind, all that could be hoped from a company in this day and age:

https://www.digitalocean.com/blog/an-update-on-last-weeks-cu...?

They recognized that their processes were too mechanistic and inhuman, and introduced a lot more compassion and open communication into them—and even chose to spend more money on hiring people to reduce ticket queue wait times.

I'd say that speaks volumes in DigitalOcean's favour.

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