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Agree, we're rarely running out of machines in London DC, but it's mainly because we are very specific about instance types and London DC is not that big.
@Polygon, that's quite steep for what it is. Active Directory? Document DB for $200?
You could try speaking to these guys - https://sherpa.escape-technology.com. We considered them at some point. They are nice people but the price may be as steep as AWS.
Also Spot instances are not to be scared of now with them being able to be used for Prod workloads etc without the fear they are going to whipped from underneath you, of course extreme cases can happen where these would be gone