I would not compare something like DO with Google/AWS/Azure.<p>Google has a globally spanning Network under its own control. They have peering with all bigger ISPs / Networkowner.<p>DO doesn't has that. They have barely a few locations and not all locations support all services.<p>When Google tell you they have 1-3ms latenc between Zones, thats what they have. On DO you probably don't even check that.<p>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.<p>What Google also does, it terminates your TLS connection as close as possible, for low latency for that expensive roundtrip and encrypts it internally.<p>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.<p>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.<p>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.<p>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.