We were on AWS for a while. The complexity was way higher than what our team could manage. DOKS is simpler, and this is the first major issue we've hit in many months.

AWS frequently has outages. us-east-1 anyone

The font color implies this comment is downvoted, but I earnestly encourage readers to take very seriously the difference in SLOs and SLAs between high-cost vendors like AWS and GCP and low-cost vendors like DigitalOcean. Read their docs; do not assume DO is "the same, but lower cost."