[ryanianian]

I use it in a home-lab setup with my personal development and local deployment machines (mostly raspberry pis and a qnap) plus few EC2 instance as a part of the mesh along with my laptop and gaming PC.

Tailscale makes the ec2 instances feel just as local as the LAN machines. I love having easy SSH connectivity to my laptop and EC2s from my windows machine. There's no tunneling or bastioning or key management or any of that nonsense. And without extra network hops (nodes direct-connect whenever possible) I don't have extra nodes in the route to steal bandwidth time or cost.

But maybe small-scale isn't what you're after : I haven't done the work to figure out the at-scale bootstrapping process (I still install the systemd or whatever units and google auth each machine manually).