> AWS is not cheap Wrong. Depends on the use case AWS can be very cheap. > splitting amongst AZ's is of no additional cost. Wrong. " across Availability Zon

> AWS is not cheap Wrong. Depends on the use case AWS can be very cheap. > splitting amongst AZ's is of no additional cost. Wrong. " across Availability Zones in the same AWS Region is charged at $0.01/GB in each direction. Effectively, cross-AZ data transfer in AWS costs 2¢ per gigabyte and each gigabyte transferred counts as 2GB on the bill: once for sending and once for receiving."