The reason why most cloud services seem to work is because of economies of scale. Google compute engine will only ever represent a small percentage of their total server utilization, and all they&#x27;ve learned in serving Google.com, and such enables them to serve GCE better.<p>Backblaze had their backup business that enabled them to figure out storage, and buy a ton of it. DigitalOcean is really a Linode competitor. Not really a EC2 &#x2F; GCE competitor. I wouldn&#x27;t call it &quot;cloud.&quot;