Having used EC2 for web hosting I can affirm that you are exactly right. Web hosting on EC2 is a challenge and quite expensive. From my experience EC2 is much b

Having used EC2 for web hosting I can affirm that you are exactly right. Web hosting on EC2 is a challenge and quite expensive. From my experience EC2 is much better suited for large data storage, distributed computing, and any other use case that can tolerate EC2 quirks, hiccups, and outages.