Now all it needs is an outage on a Sunday evening and your savings for the next year will be eaten up by the people having to fix them at overtime rates on a we

Now all it needs is an outage on a Sunday evening and your savings for the next year will be eaten up by the people having to fix them at overtime rates on a weekend... Yes, it's cheaper when everything is going well, it always is. That's not why we pay through the nose for AWS. We pay because Someone Else will be running around the colo facility swapping hardware and debugging networking issues if there's a problem. Hiring a 24/7/365 redundant rotation of people doing that is a LOT more than $1000/month...