Not sure why the downvotes - at least ASGs can be expanded later unlike the one-offs. Plus, you should never have SPOFs anyway. There was a comment below about

Not sure why the downvotes - at least ASGs can be expanded later unlike the one-offs. Plus, you should never have SPOFs anyway. There was a comment below about not all projects being of Netflix' scale - well, there's Digital Ocean for the smaller one - EC2 is not the most cost-effective solution for small projects anyway.