That type of hosting didnt scale. You paid a flat fee for capped CPU and bandwidth. Hosting today scales linearly in terms of resources and costs... In additi

That type of hosting didnt scale. You paid a flat fee for capped CPU and bandwidth. Hosting today scales linearly in terms of resources and costs... In addition you can hook up additional AWS services as your needs arise: Add a CDN and deliver content to the edges, faster . Add lambdas to handle regular updates to content, or basic authentication when users come in. Monitor usage via Cloudwatch Add in serverless API via API Gateway - and provides users more dynamic functionality. Yes - the vendor lock-in is a major downside. Serverless isnt for everyone, neither are the big cloud vendors... YMMV.