We run servers in colos in a bunch of POPs. We've tried to do the "how much would this cost in AWS" a few times now over the years, and it's hilarious how much

We run servers in colos in a bunch of POPs. We've tried to do the "how much would this cost in AWS" a few times now over the years, and it's hilarious how much staggeringly more expensive it is. Even if you do stupid things like assume hardware will depreciate over 2 years (in real life, try 5-10) AWS always ends up being an order of magnitude more expensive. And it's not really business-model specific: we've analyzed compute-heavy/bandwidth-heavy/HA-esque projects and it's always insane how much they get away with charging for services. Maybe if you're in the "under $1k/mo" range it makes sense to microservice in AWS, but even then VPS hosts are so much cheaper and easier to use.