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I would not compare something like DO with Google/AWS/Azure.

Google has a globally spanning Network under its own control. They have peering with all bigger ISPs / Networkowner.

DO doesn't has that. They have barely a few locations and not all locations support all services.

When Google tell you they have 1-3ms latenc between Zones, thats what they have. On DO you probably don't even check that.

If you need to operate globally, you will probably not go to DO. You wanna provide a good service with low latency globally, you go to GAA.

What Google also does, it terminates your TLS connection as close as possible, for low latency for that expensive roundtrip and encrypts it internally.

When i'm looking for my private stuff, i'm not going to GAA, i go to DO or Hetzner. They are cheap, relativly reliable and thats it.

When i'm doing something at work, i will not go to DO or Hetzner if it costs me overhead. That stuff needs to run, 24/7, without me or my colleges interacting with it. That would cost much more. It is also an operational risk.

The scale also changes: If a Service costs me 500$ more per month on AWS but it allows me to have a few new bigger customers (b2b) onboarded, no one will look at those 500$. An external developer costs between 600-1000$ per day.

I still can't tell you how reasonable those Bandwithprices are, but i do know, that when i would need low latency or high bandwith also at peak time, i would go to GAA and i assume that that is part of the cost you pay for it.