> Why not just use an autoscaling group? Not everyone has money to burn, even back in ZIRP era. And before you trot out wages for experienced operations team

> Why not just use an autoscaling group? Not everyone has money to burn, even back in ZIRP era. And before you trot out wages for experienced operations team - I've regularly dealt with it being cheaper to pay for one or two very experienced people than deal with AWS bill. For the very simple reason that cloud provider's prices are scaled to US market and not everyone has US money levels.