> Is it because everyone is writing their stuff on node.js, putting 500kb of JS in every web page they serve, putting Docker everywhere when a chroot would suff

> Is it because everyone is writing their stuff on node.js, putting 500kb of JS in every web page they serve, putting Docker everywhere when a chroot would suffice, microservices, Kubernetes, or hell even writing SAPs when we don't need them? My response may come off as rude, but that's not the intention. From the above quote you've vastly over simplified all but the most simplistic environments. Someone could run all of the above for well under 10k month - those are not the reasons why costs are high > putting 500kb of JS in every web page they serve that's not much and CDNs serve that without issue or significant cost > putting Docker everywhere when a chroot would suffice Docker does not have much overhead over chroot with a large drop in security/isolation > microservices there are good and bad ways to do this - does not need to cost much. saying "microservices" is so broad to have no meaning in this context > Kubernetes think about why someone might run kube. Again, not that expensive unless you're really small where having master nodes would have a big impact on costs > or hell even writing SAPs when we don't need them? Do you mean SAP? SAP is the largest non-American software company by revenue. I don't think anyone likes working with SAP. You think people use it for without reason? There are reasons. Think about what those might be But those are just details - when building anything of a decent size, nothing is a simple CRUD. There are always exceptions, limitation, biz logic, migration issues, schema issues. I don't care if you use Postgres, Mongo, Kafka or $SOMETHING_COOL Then there's data retention. It's very very easy to keep PB of data in s3 or other data stores for biz or compliance needs Then AWS gives IAM, which is very helpful in teams > 5