I see a lot of people here saying how they "get burnt" by unexpected increase in their bills, because some guy who was supposed to manage the cloud made a mista

I see a lot of people here saying how they "get burnt" by unexpected increase in their bills, because some guy who was supposed to manage the cloud made a mistake. That's not the real burn, the real burn is when you pay $8K a month on cloud services for apps that could run on a laptop in a basement. And you pay that monthly, for years. And before devops guys slash me with "scaling", "fault tolerance", "redundancy" and what not, remember that your little website isn't a multi million user app and all the issues that you think are fixed by simply moving to the cloud can also be fixed by running your app on a laptop (for free). I used to handle infra for a client a few years ago (the stack was built by another employee before I got there) and it always amazed me why these people pay $10-20K every month to AWS for their app with 500 users a day. Needless to say that AWS was also causing a lot of headaches with their instance management, network maintenance and service unavailability. I know cloud is cool, but business should probably think twice before going for it.