>> 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

>> 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. I am not sure where you get the notion that any serious user goes with the "put your stuff on a few EC2 boxes" approach. Every single AWS project I worked on had a cost calculation phase when we investigated what combination of services could be the most cost-efficient for a certain problem. >> cloud-native, microservices, k8s trends It is kind of funny that you try to put on one end AWS the company that made cloud computing popular (and microservices with it) and the biggest player in the segment and "cloud-native, microservices, k8s" on the other. Trends come and go, AWS is here for the long run.