> It takes a _huge_ scale to make moving to ec2 make sense in most cases. Our project has almost no traffic but the data processing part requires plenty of RAM

> It takes a _huge_ scale to make moving to ec2 make sense in most cases. Our project has almost no traffic but the data processing part requires plenty of RAM. Literally with a few concurrent users it just won't work. And if autoscaling was enabled it'd be too pricey. So I think it also depends on the use case. There are better PaaS alternatives.