You pay a premium for flexibility. If you need a single dev server today and it is 50-50 that you will either need 100 servers next year or 3, then AWS or anoth

You pay a premium for flexibility. If you need a single dev server today and it is 50-50 that you will either need 100 servers next year or 3, then AWS or another cloud provider is the logical choice. AWS reserved instances can also give you a discount that makes the price competitive with regular dedicated servers. Note that you can also request a dedicated host on AWS EC2 and have a server reserved just for you.