For me biggest reason to use AWS is ease of use and APIs. I have used dedicated servers before but with AWS I don't even think about servers. Application is som

For me biggest reason to use AWS is ease of use and APIs. I have used dedicated servers before but with AWS I don't even think about servers. Application is somewhere sitting in the cloud and it will scale, if required or I will get alert if something is not right. Also, majority of people will not be needing more than a single EC2 instance which costs ~$20 a month, lesser for Linux. Amazon reviews and lowers prices periodically.