This. The company I work for use AWS and that makes sense for the level they scale at etc and I'm sure they work out a deal with Amazon. I have a few dedicated

This. The company I work for use AWS and that makes sense for the level they scale at etc and I'm sure they work out a deal with Amazon. I have a few dedicated servers monthly cost ~100$, never ran into any problems, for a brief period I needed to pay cloudflare for some dns management that was getting a bit heavy, but even that was because I didn't know enough as to how to optimize. For any personal projects etc / POC's even startups launching to less than 100k daily users (traffic and load type dependant ofc) hold off on the AWS> I also don't like the lambda architecture in AWS as it seems to lock you into it in a sense, you're almost tied to that infrastructure for good. Yes you can rework it but thats tech debt that may not be possible. Love AWS but only as an enterprise solution.