Did you count reliability into your assesment here? I'm reading about Fly.io outages multiple times a year, whereas Lightsail seem to be as stable as AWS EC2.

And when you compare it to Lightsail, it blows it away.

This is a bit of a confusing sentence because there are so many pronouns. Do all of the "it"s refer to Fly.io?

are global r/w token permissions still a thing, or did the token scopes thing finally come out of beta?

also, my experience with support was not the same as yours. they were utterly useless for the most part.

for a personal web dev (or similar) project, like, i agree, they’ve got good value.

but having worked in a small biz where DO was what they built everything on — no. bad idea. spend more. use aws (graviton ec2 instances)/azure.

the $5 droplet is underpowered and can't run anything substantial. it's just the price to get you in the door.

> which I never managed on AWS

I haven't looked at it recently, but App Runner could do a few of Fly.io esque things (but slightly more expensive): https://aws.amazon.com/apprunner/

Depends on what you mean by edge compute, but you probably are.

5G towers are a ton of compute on the edge to secure and protect the traffic passing through them.

Or if by edge you mean having stuff close to your consumers, every non trivial operation does that.

We have an embeddable audio player served globally with very low latency. This wouldn't be possible without edge compute/data.