Its a game of tradeoffs, you are going to be spending money somewhere. Consider: - You ignore resource usage and move to dedicated hosting. You are now wasting

Its a game of tradeoffs, you are going to be spending money somewhere. Consider: - You ignore resource usage and move to dedicated hosting. You are now wasting money on inefficient processes. To remedy this you apply software engineering practices to understand the model and design it correctly. - You ignore server unit costs and stay on cloud, but improve your runtime characteristics. You are now wasting money on the hardware, but your software is efficient. To remedy this you have to learn how to manage infra and take it on as constant maintenance. It seems on your team it makes more sense to me to just pay for the cloud and stay in your software wheel-house.