It could also be less than $100k a month (e.g. 2500 c5a.large with a 1-year reservation). At that point you'd wonder why your monitoring bill was 40% of your co

It could also be less than $100k a month (e.g. 2500 c5a.large with a 1-year reservation). At that point you'd wonder why your monitoring bill was 40% of your compute bill. Also, of course their salary is relevant. The cost of an engineer's time is an important factor to consider when making build vs buy decisions. Usually it's one that argues in favor of "buy", but not always.