See above

We haven't evaluated Azure yet, but it's certainly an option. At some point, we have to decide whether we want fish or meat, meaning we can't have everything. We may keep some services on DigitalOcean, and we'll see about pricing for Azure.

We went through rough pricing estimates when evaluating our options. We didn't have a huge technical requirement and so pricing was our main consideration. This solution was the lowest and was one of the top three recommended companies next to Azure and AWS.

We use many different solutions at once, but we don't want to keep all our eggs in one basket. We use Azure, Oracle, AWS, and DigitalOcean and they all quite work well. We basically use DigitalOcean as a safeguard.