For $1, I can spin up a complete clone of my production environment in less than 10 minutes. I can modify my chef recipes to do postgresql database failover an

For $1, I can spin up a complete clone of my production environment in less than 10 minutes. I can modify my chef recipes to do postgresql database failover and test it on the new servers. Once I'm confident that everything works, I can destroy the new servers and move that configuration over to the production servers. If I need 5 TB more hard drive space, it takes less than 10 minutes get it. That's the value of EC2 to me. I don't really care if it costs $5,000 more a year (or whatever), my business can support that additional cost fine.