We're actively planning an aws workload right now, and with reserved instances for the baseline workload, the pricing is closer to 1.5-2x, but the cost savings

We're actively planning an aws workload right now, and with reserved instances for the baseline workload, the pricing is closer to 1.5-2x, but the cost savings of only needing to scale up for a couple of hours per week make up for that. Yes it would be cheaper to run out own infra for the baseload and burst into aws, but that adds operational load onto the development team, which defeats the purpose of going with AWS in the first place