CirrusStack

Their DDoS scrubbing absorbed a large attack during our biggest sale week. We found out from the post-incident report, not from an outage.

Reserved pricing is a flat percentage cut with no fine print. We compared three vendors and the math here was cleanest.

Billing is the real feature. Every line maps to a metric we can query ourselves, and the invoice has matched the estimate three months running.

Snapshot restores are fast enough that we test them monthly. A 4 TB volume came back in 22 minutes to the same region.

List price is honest, but capacity in our primary region has been "temporarily constrained" for three weeks. Autoscaling quietly failed during our peak.

We scaled from 6 to 90 instances for a launch weekend and the autoscaler behaved exactly as documented. No throttling emails, no surprises.

Their DDoS scrubbing absorbed a large attack during our biggest sale week. We found out from the post-incident report, not from an outage.

Console is fast, the API is consistent, and the CLI has never eaten a flag on us. Small thing, big difference at 2am.