Slowly, very slowly, DO is creeping towards having enough features to peel users off of AWS and GCP. Block storage, load balancers, and now blob storage...if you don't need managed queues or databases, you can probably save some serious coin by running services on DO.
S3 sets a high bar in terms of durability and availability, so it will be interesting to see how well DO can compete, and it will take a long time to gain the same level of trust that S3 has earned.
I wouldn't be surprised to see DO either roll out DaaS next or partner with someone (Compose.io?) to do it. That's one of two things (the other being VPC, which I know they're working on per HN posts elsewhere) that make AWS/GCP tempting over DO for me.
That said, I kind of hope it's not Compose.io - they seem ridiculously overpriced for PostgreSQL compared to AWS's and GCP's offerings.
Using managed queues (SQS) from AWS. The rest is on Vultr. That mix-and-match works perfectly for my use-case. In other words, no need to be able to run everything on a single platform to get cost gains.
Seed-stage startup here that would love to start using more of our (time limited) DO credit where our cluster requires running in a VPC. Any way to sign up for early access to VPC when it does roll out?
Most likely we will have a similar beta to what we've done with Block and Object storage, but it's still to early to provide a time line that isn't in quarters with a marge of error of 1-2 quarters.
S3 sets a high bar in terms of durability and availability, so it will be interesting to see how well DO can compete, and it will take a long time to gain the same level of trust that S3 has earned.