Considering AWS dirt cheap is like considering a tesla to be dirt cheap. You're talking big money, I'm saying most people can't do that because they don't have

Considering AWS dirt cheap is like considering a tesla to be dirt cheap. You're talking big money, I'm saying most people can't do that because they don't have that kind of money. A simple colocated server nowadays can do almost a petabyte a month for less than $1000. Lookup how much that is on AWS. Lambdas and s3 are cool until you get ddos'd and now owe way more money. Or, your software doesn't work with lambda, which is true of the overwhelming majority of services.