If you use digital ocean i guarantee your cost will be less than $100k. In my last job, We used AWS for a big website, our spending cost were $10k, switched to

If you use digital ocean i guarantee your cost will be less than $100k. In my last job, We used AWS for a big website, our spending cost were $10k, switched to digitalocean first bill was close to $1500, with around same users. our site was related to news and there was a forum too that's why the cost were high.