For every project you want to choose a cloud provider or whatever, you have to compute "time to production + cost of people + cost of provider" When your needs

For every project you want to choose a cloud provider or whatever, you have to compute "time to production + cost of people + cost of provider" When your needs are low, AWS and friends are very competitive: quicker deploy, no CAPEX, lower OPEX If your needs are high, you should indeed build your stuff on top of instances If your needs are higher, then rent rack space and build on top of baremetal If your needs are even higher, then build your datacenter As an example, I put my personal backups in the "cloud". Is 1€/mo for 100GB cheaper than using a VPS ? Hell yeah !