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Bandwith is obviously extremely expensive on AWS. But even EC2 is easily 5x as expensive as renting a dedicated server. Of course this is a deeply unfair compar

Bandwith is obviously extremely expensive on AWS. But even EC2 is easily 5x as expensive as renting a dedicated server. Of course this is a deeply unfair comparison as dedicated servers don't have the flexibility of an EC2 instance and the integration into other services. So if those matter to you then the cloud is certainly worth it. But you are paying a lot more for CPU, RAM and storage compared to other options. You are also getting a lot more with AWS, but you're only saving money if you can fully exploit the flexibility of the cloud and scale the resources very well. And even then if you need a lot of egress you're screwed on the costs in any case.

FpUser 4y ago
>"dedicated servers don't have the flexibility of an EC2 instance and the integration into other services." I understand that there are many cases when all of that you mention is needed but for the vast majority of normal businesses having main and standby servers on Hetzner / OVH with on premises backup would cover all their needs like for ever with stellar performance. All at the fraction of the cost. Many business owners just do not know it as they're not technical and their tech stuff for some inexplicable reasons are all for doing "cool" cloud architectures at owner's expense. And of course that magical "cloud" word sells itself. So many times when I come to do something a new client I hear the owner say proudly - we are on a cloud. It takes some careful efforts to explain to them that they're just wasting money while not upsetting them in a first place.