In that case I can just use S3 for blobs and use Digital Ocean and Vultr and Lin...

		api on Aug 6, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why We Moved from Amazon Web Services to Google Cl... In that case I can just use S3 for blobs and use Digital Ocean and Vultr and Linode for compute. Amazon charges $0 for bandwidth ingress so uploading to S3 costs me nothing. We use VPS providers for compute and S3 for backup and large blob storage. The only other Amazon product we use is Route 53, which is a decent DNS-as-a-service and is very reliable.

Of course. The trick is to decide what mix of lower price and lower complexity is your sweet spot.