Today, Fly.io is more or less in the same market as Lightsail, not AWS. And when you compare it to Lightsail, it blows it away.
This is a bit of a confusing sentence because there are so many pronouns. Do all of the "it"s refer to Fly.io?
For $5 you get:
Latest gen CPUs and RAM
HTTPS
DDoS protection
Cloudflare CDN
Autoscale
Competent support
I'd say the best part is the predictable monthly prices
And while most people probably don't care, they are an established public company, so there is more chance they will exist in 10 years
also, my experience with support was not the same as yours. they were utterly useless for the most part.
for a personal web dev (or similar) project, like, i agree, they’ve got good value.
but having worked in a small biz where DO was what they built everything on — no. bad idea. spend more. use aws (graviton ec2 instances)/azure.
but GO and pocketbase is on record for supporting 10k concurrent requests per second on low powered VPS
Additionally, having machines that turn off when not in use is easy to configure, which I never managed on AWS.
I haven't looked at it recently, but App Runner could do a few of Fly.io esque things (but slightly more expensive): https://aws.amazon.com/apprunner/
5G towers are a ton of compute on the edge to secure and protect the traffic passing through them.
Or if by edge you mean having stuff close to your consumers, every non trivial operation does that.
You get edge computing, autoscaling, and load balancing without additional configuration.
Not as flexible as AWS, but also much easier to setup and maintain.
But the reliability issues suck now and then.