&gt; <i>If your scale is large, you have enough work to make full use of however many servers you rent.</i><p>If this was close to true, AWS would not have existed. The thing is, when you&#x27;re big, you&#x27;re planning for spikes, and you&#x27;re paying for your maxima per month. (Spare capacity aside, as that has to be a percentage of your desired monthly capacity.)