A million-dollar engineering problem
A friend of mine was annoyed that a small service he liked was shutting down.He contacted the developer who said that they were shutting it down because the server costs were higher than the money they were making.They were spending 5k a month on AWS crap and claimed it was impossible to get any lower.He helped them consolidate everything onto a single rented dedicated server costing 400 a month. Now the service is profitable, and will stay up.It runs way faster on the single server. It also has required less maintenance after the move too.This kind of shit is everywhere. At this point simply not using AWS is a competitive advantage.