> An AWS large server is around $500/year, which is about 1-2 developer hours (with taxes, overhead, etc) at the cost scales last time I priced this out. That's

> An AWS large server is around $500/year, which is about 1-2 developer hours (with taxes, overhead, etc) at the cost scales last time I priced this out. That's crazy expensive in the absolute, but if it saves a couple of hours, it makes sense. For comparison's sake, the net salary for a software developer in Latvia is roughly between 950 and 2800 euros per month: https://www.algas.lv/en/salaryinfo/information-technology/programmer https://www.algas.lv/en/salaryinfo/information-technology/pr... Given the above number, some calculations of the gross salary land at between 1350 and 4000 euros per month: https://mansjumis.lv/darba-algas-kalkulators https://mansjumis.lv/darba-algas-kalkulators So essentially one of your developer days would represent weeks of work for a Latvian developer (depending on additional expenses/overhead), which I find curious. Developer costs are still likely to be higher than infrastructure costs, but not nearly by as much, which might explain why I've seen a lot of on-prem deployments locally, and people shying away from going all in with cloud technologies. I wonder whether these differences are more pronounced for other countries where developers can be comparatively less expensive (at least in relation to using the cloud and/or hardware), like India, Russia and elsewhere, how much the development culture differs. Also how many would opt for alternative providers like Hetzner, DigitalOcean, Vultr, Scaleway, OVH and so on...