[dkersten]

Yeah, my issue was something similar. When I moved it to DigitalOcean, I was getting logs consistently (from my application) and I traced it to something that was misconfigured on my end, which was causing health checks to fail. It took a total of about 10 minutes to track and fix on DO, while I had already spent 2 days (and the $100) trying to figure it out on AWS.

I mean, the issue was my fault, but AWS made it incredibly painful to figure out and fix and was not helpful at all. I decided that day that I will never use AWS again, unless I have someone with a lot of AWS experience on the team (and even then, only if I have a good reason to use AWS, in my case there is a reason why AWS would perhaps be desirable in the future but not enough to go through the pain again myself).