It always was for load that doesn't allow for autoscaling to save you money; the savings were always from convenience of not having to do ops and pay for ops.

It always was for load that doesn't allow for autoscaling to save you money; the savings were always from convenience of not having to do ops and pay for ops. Then again a part of ops cost you save is paid again in dev salary that have to deal with AWS stuff instead of just throwing a blob of binaries and letting ops worry about the rest.