it's $20 at DigitalOcean which is already heavily marked up :) compared to colo. The sweet spot for AWS is low traffic project that uses a very large number of

it's $20 at DigitalOcean which is already heavily marked up :) compared to colo. The sweet spot for AWS is low traffic project that uses a very large number of AWS services or something with extremely spiky workload. It's a legend that you don't need ops people for AWS. We have a fairly complicated large scale project on AWS we have 4 full time ops people. If we were in colo we would need 5-6 instead of 4 and a bit of remote hands services.