[ersoft]

Did you check out Google Cloud ? I moved all my company's instances to them and I ended up cheaper than on Vultr (similar pricing with DO), while also benefiting to more features (storage, mysql, etc) and better uptime.

For 28$/month you can get a similar instances as on amazon (1CPU and 3.75GB RAM) and 60GB SSD is another 10$. 60GB standard storage is 2.40$.

I'm impressed that Google Cloud is adding a couple of new features every month and I can see them a strong AWS competitor soon.

[obulpathi]

Google Cloud had a very impressive year. It has lots of killer features that AWS lacks. * Cloud Shell: Sweetest thing that happened since I started using cloud, no need to install dev tools * SSH right from web console * No need of managing ssh keys: Google takes care of it. If a user is removed, the users ssh keys are automatically revoked. * Security by default: Encryption at rest and on wire for all the products (Storage, Disks, SQL .. ) * Datalab (in alpha): Do data science from the browser (Jupyter as a service). * Pub/Sub + Dataflow: This is how I envision next generation Kafka + Samza to look like. * Container Engine, consistent performance, blazing fast disks and more.