What are your favorite cloud services?

Managed X, X as a service, cloud X... Whether it's infrastructure, hosting, API, or however you define it, what are your favorite services in terms of usability, pricing and overall satisfaction?

Comments

[Josh Puetz]

I'll admit it: I love Heroku! It's the Apple of cloud services to me: as long as you're doing things the Heorku way everything is great. I've worked on a number of teams that didn't have amazing ops personnel like we do at DEV, and in those cases not having to worry about infrastructure was a godsend!

[Tom Granot]

Big, big fan. They marketed push to deploy and ephemeral environments before it was that cool and JAMstack was all the rage. And boy, do they have awesome docs..... So, so good.

dev.to/heroku/how-containers-chang... id a great read.

[Brian Kephart]

I'm the only dev where I work, and the only reason I get away with it is because of Rails and Heroku.

Now, if they'd only support HTTP/2...

[David Aldridge]

I worked at a company that had its own data centre about 10+ years ago, and they once took 7 months to provision a database for my team.

I'm thankful every day for Heroku.

[Mike]

Digital Ocean!

[Andreas Møller]

Vercel by a mile. Render.com is very promising too

[Arturs Smirnovs]

Cloudflare is one of most amazing services..
Not sure if you can call them as could service but they are amazing :)

@digitalocean_staff for hosting :)

Google API's are amazing, just when your project goes out of free borders it becomes quite expensive..

That's kinda short answer from me..

[Galuh Utama]

Cloudflare was fine, I guess. That’s until their DNS services were down last week for 20 minutes :angryfist:

[Arturs Smirnovs]

There was another incident i remember 6 months ago or so.. 30 min down time..
Issue was the same, somebody messed something up in configs.. I guess..

But still :)

[JoelBonetR 🥇]

I've seen it down many times but we still using it on my company.
Another thing they could do is custom purge cache when asset version changes (regarding filesize or last modification time), i'm tired of custom purging cache every time we deploy to production :'c

It does not check if the file exists till cache life ends, making file hashing useless for this purpose.

Oh and... cloudflare ignores no-cache headers which annoys me a lot

[Fred Richards]

I am a fan of GCP, Cloudflare, and AWS, mostly in that order.

[Annie Taylor Chen]

• Firebase, database backend as service, easy for front-end development, but I heard it can get expensive over free tier
• MongoDB Atlas cloud, not sure about price, I only used free tier so far
• Netlify, amazing and fast for static sites!
• Vercel, excellent with Next.js
• Heroku, easy to set up for people with no DevOps experiences, a bit expensive for toy projects
• Digital Ocean, inexpensive, freedom to explore different combination of tech stack, but need some DevOps knowledge
• Gatsby Cloud (haven't used but interested...)

[Shaiju T]

Azure.

I have used Azure to deploy web apps.

I have used AWS to create a VM.

• Azure has user friendly UX, its easy to understand.

• I heard that AWS is costly than Azure.

• Recently in Microsoft Build 2020, they announced new AI supercomputer .

• AWS to Azure services comparison is handy to compare as required.

[Garret]

Interesting, I always look into cheaper stuff of course for personal projects. Which services specifically are cheaper on Azure than AWS that you use? I guess the only thing I really have looked at are VM's specifically on the comparison so haven't checked everything but super curious.

[Shaiju T]

As I said i heard its cheaper. You can also Google azure cheaper than AWS. Below is link from official site.

AWS is 5 times more expensive than Azure for Windows Server and SQL Server

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/overview...

[R Sutharshan]

Vultr is the best cloud service out there. Best performance, reasonable price, and reliability.
Also, $100 free credit to get start. vultr.com/?ref=8486064-6G
I used AWS, Google cloud, and DO also but Vultr has value for money.

[Garret]

Vercel
AWS EC2/Lambda, Digitalocean
DynamoDB, MongoDB (on Atlas)
Cloudflare

AWS is by far my favorite cloud provider that just has anything I want or need, it can sometimes be a little tricky and I use Vercel to make it a little bit easier sometimes for simple frontend and backends. Recently DynamoDB has been my favorite database to ever use and once you learn how to use it properly it is super powerful and always consistent speeds no matter how much data there is. Cloudflare is of course just super nice all around and I mainly use it for DNS/CDN. I have played around some with workers though never really used them for a real project yet.

[Matthew Schwartz]

I like AWS but I had terrible performance problems with DynamoDB. Maybe it was just my specific use case.

[Elle O'Brien]

For ML: the GCP $300 free credit goes pretty far! I've trained some GANs on that :) And you can get pre-emptible instances, so basically half-off GPUs if you're okay with possibly getting bumped (just add checkpoints to your model training and you'll be fine).