Assuming the 500 instances are something like m5.4xlarge, the on-demand cost would be $3M. You save something on reserved instances, but have other excessive co

Assuming the 500 instances are something like m5.4xlarge, the on-demand cost would be $3M. You save something on reserved instances, but have other excessive costs like egress, so that should be the right order of magnitude. So why do you limit a project that's supposed to save $1M+ to a cost of $50k or so?