This is one of the ways to use AWS 'the right way'. Without serious optimization, using AWS as a IaaS provider is going to cost more. AWS provides a ton of bui

This is one of the ways to use AWS 'the right way'. Without serious optimization, using AWS as a IaaS provider is going to cost more. AWS provides a ton of building block primitives you can use to build with at a price point better than you can do it yourself. If you just try to do it yourself using their IaaS offerings 24/7 (ec2, vpc, etc) then you're in for a bad time.