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by zedpm 3282 days ago
Slowly, very slowly, DO is creeping towards having enough features to peel users off of AWS and GCP. Block storage, load balancers, and now blob storage...if you don't need managed queues or databases, you can probably save some serious coin by running services on DO.

S3 sets a high bar in terms of durability and availability, so it will be interesting to see how well DO can compete, and it will take a long time to gain the same level of trust that S3 has earned.
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Arcsech 3282 days ago
I wouldn't be surprised to see DO either roll out DaaS next or partner with someone (Compose.io?) to do it. That's one of two things (the other being VPC, which I know they're working on per HN posts elsewhere) that make AWS/GCP tempting over DO for me.

That said, I kind of hope it's not Compose.io - they seem ridiculously overpriced for PostgreSQL compared to AWS's and GCP's offerings.

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tedmiston 3282 days ago
VPC on DO is the #1 feature request that stops my team from considering it.

I use DO personally for small things and like it a lot, but VPC is a hard requirement for company work.

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raiyu 3282 days ago
We're actively building VPC =]
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lftl 3282 days ago
IBM owns Compose.io now, so I'd be a little surprised to see them launch anything on DO.
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gbrits 3282 days ago
Using managed queues (SQS) from AWS. The rest is on Vultr. That mix-and-match works perfectly for my use-case. In other words, no need to be able to run everything on a single platform to get cost gains.
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SamLevin88 3282 days ago
Good to know. Am in the throes of choosing between both for a simple project
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raiyu 3282 days ago
VPC is in the works at the moment, still a bit too early for a release date, but the team has been on it for about the past 3 quarters.
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tedmiston 3282 days ago
Seed-stage startup here that would love to start using more of our (time limited) DO credit where our cluster requires running in a VPC. Any way to sign up for early access to VPC when it does roll out?
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raiyu 3282 days ago
Most likely we will have a similar beta to what we've done with Block and Object storage, but it's still to early to provide a time line that isn't in quarters with a marge of error of 1-2 quarters.
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