> Have you ever used AWS? There's a whole suite of tools they provide around pricing and budgeting. Yes, I use it extensively. > Is applying separation of con

> Have you ever used AWS? There's a whole suite of tools they provide around pricing and budgeting. Yes, I use it extensively. > Is applying separation of concerns to web services really that bad? Look, if you're a small company with a simple product, you can just put your stuff on a few EC2 boxes and pay the monthly bill for that. At that size, your infra costs are going to be dwarfed by your other costs of doing business anyway. If you're a big business, you can literally pay people to keep track of this stuff. You've got the extra money, because now you don't employ data center architects, server engineers, etc. AWS is able to "print money" because it brings a lot of value to many businesses. It's not bad per se. The real problem I often see is that many people within the typical org aren't aware of how these costs can accumulate, especially when you have multiple DTAP environments, microservices, and so on. Another problem is the days of "put your stuff on a few EC2 boxes" seem to have been overtaken by the cloud native, microservices, k8s trends of the last few years. Personally I 100% agree this is the way to go for many (if not most) people -- and for this purpose Digital Ocean is just as good -- but what I see more often is people diving straight into the deep end, because "Is applying separation of concerns to web services really that bad?" I also think even big businesses underestimate the total costs of these all-in cloud infrastructures. You indeed need to pay people to keep track of this stuff -- multiple people. Your cloud costs + your devops/platform personnel costs can get to be a significant % of your total IT costs. Is it really necessary? Just because your business has a big market cap or significant revenue from digital doesn't necessarily mean it needs any of that stuff. Chances are you can run it all on the same couple of EC2 boxes you ran it on when you were still a small company.