I'd say it's still the case for the majority of the cases. Which is a shame, because I like this idea of having hw limits for your software and being able to ef

I'd say it's still the case for the majority of the cases. Which is a shame, because I like this idea of having hw limits for your software and being able to efficiently maximise hardware at the datacenter level for redundant, trivial applications (like serving web requests). Most web servers are half idle "just in case" because hardware is cheap and engineers time is expensive. I migrated some mid business (500-1000 people company) lambda setup to ec2 spot instances and a standard app and the costs dropped. It would have been even cheaper on something like heztner, but good luck getting a buy-in from the infra team. I venture most small businesses will have less load than them. Certainly it's not worth it for my tiny side businesses. I was running some calculations for a project though, and if you "abuse" them with lengthy / expensive calculations run very infrequently (think like a cron job), you may end up being quite cost effective.