This is unsurprising. The point of AWS is to be flexible. You’re paying for that. It’s easy to start. It’s easy to stop. It’s easy to change capacity. Running

This is unsurprising. The point of AWS is to be flexible. You’re paying for that. It’s easy to start. It’s easy to stop. It’s easy to change capacity. Running your own servers is none of these things. But it is cheaper at sufficient scale. You can’t ignore the labor cost (particularly engineering) however. Where AWS shines is with highly volatile workloads. With your own servers you have to provision for peak capacity. That’s less the case with AWS. No shade on the author of course. It’s great to read things like this.