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I agree with your point about block storage - with Linode, there's a hard limit on how much hard drive space you get on any single server, which makes it a poor choice for anything that requires a lot of storage space (databases, file servers, etc.).

Unlike Amazon, you don't have any good options for increasing your storage space on Linode using network block storage, unless you somehow run another Linode and NFS them together. Being able to launch a moderately priced server with hundreds of gigs of spinning rust on AWS is still a nice option to have.