Speaking as someone who works at a small startup that transitioned from a hosting centre to AWS a couple years ago, we sliced our monthly hosting costs by about

Speaking as someone who works at a small startup that transitioned from a hosting centre to AWS a couple years ago, we sliced our monthly hosting costs by about 1/3 immediately, and gained a massive amount of flexibility. Maybe GCE is better is some respects, but we're certainly not regretting the choice.