> Before we started coding, we needed to estimate an upper-bound on our AWS costs with order-of-magnitude accuracy. Basically: “Is there a sustainable business

> Before we started coding, we needed to estimate an upper-bound on our AWS costs with order-of-magnitude accuracy. Basically: “Is there a sustainable business model behind this idea?” this makes no sense to me. why is amazon the only place you can host this stuff? on aws you can hit $50-100k/month VERY easily, for infrastructure that would cost $10-20k/month somewhere else. in other words - that's the difference between a viable business or not. straight into amazon's pockets.