| Cost and ease of development by not throwing thousand of options in front of your screen. Last time, I checked GCP costed me $26 (+ hidden charges) for the same I could get on many other places for $7. Some of them provide instant customer support too and are better because it's not an outsourced customer center in India or other places. Check out: vultr: https://www.vultr.com Scaleway: https://www.scaleway.com/en/ OVH: https://www.ovhcloud.com/en/ DO: https://www.digitalocean.com Some prefer managed infrastructure and want to write code. Though, you can do that via GKM but prefer more straightforward approach. Nanobox: https://nanobox.io Heroku: https://www.heroku.com LastBackend: https://lastbackend.com ML/AI Paperspace: https://www.paperspace.com Flyodhub: https://www.floydhub.com Colocation for those who have big infrastructure needs and developers will cost them less. Equinx: https://www.equinix.com Datafoundry: https://www.datafoundry.com Disclaimer: not associated with any of them. Have used some of them and for others, heard great things. You can easily go lower for less support and most likely a shit interface with some reliability issues. |
This! i don't want to spend my life navigating the maze of options and hidden costs of AWS et al, this is important to most projects for two reasons - time and cognitive load... Until things get truly massive scale, it's not worth the brain drain and time is more precious. Navigating the interface of Linode is actually pleasant and takes minimum effort.
If anyone needs a reason not to use AWS for your boss in a nutshell: employee sanity.