Linode offers the equivalent of a tiny, tiny subset of AWS. I haven&#x27;t looked recently, but do they have something equivalent to SQS? Autoscaling groups? DynamoDB? SES? Cloudwatch?<p>If you are going to end up re-building AWS&#x27;s services from scratch on top of what are essentially naked linux machines (or doing your integration work between services from many vendors), you are doing a <i>huge</i> amount of work that isn&#x27;t necessary and will be a lot more expensive than that $20k&#x2F; month you could have been paying to Amazon.