Haven't tried Azure yet - will give it a spin eventually. I love Digital Ocean compared to AWS. Sure, AWS has a lot of bells and whistles, but this simplicity of DO is just what I need most times.
AWS has moved on from single-EC2-instance simplicity. It's not worth it if you don't need a virtual rack of servers with all the VPC networking that comes with it.
But if you _do_ need that, like we do, it's bloody brilliant.
But if you _do_ need that, like we do, it's bloody brilliant.