[somecallitblues]

I would add route 53, S3 and easy of setting up security groups as killer features. Plus the ability to take a snapshot and boot an instance from it, awesome API, elastic IPs and reliability. I’ve had 8 instances across 3 data centres, for 5 years, with a single hardware failure where I’ve had to take action. Their shit just works.

[grey-area]

DO has most of that I think - DNS, Object Storage, reuse snapshots, API, floating IPs, load balancers, reliability on par with AWS, and simpler pricing, but no auto-scaling that I'm aware of.