Hardware hasn&#x27;t really decreased that much not if you count what services you want to run these days on it compared to 10-20-30 years ago.<p>If you just run a simple web-application sure it&#x27;s much much cheaper today than it was in 2000, but as technology evolved that isn&#x27;t enough for big business today, if you look at companies that still build their own servers then unless they have unlimited space the servers these days tend to be much more expensive and exotic hardware is more and more common (it&#x27;s not that uncommon to see SQL&#x2F;BI servers with quite expensive compute&#x2F;GPU&#x27;s these days, 5 years ago it was all those &quot;IOPS accelerators&quot; or &quot;specialized&quot; SSD&#x27;s, in 5 years it will be something else).<p>As far as looking at the price of S3 or EC2 in 20 years that&#x27;s completely irrelevant because those services for the most part will be irrelevant in 20 years, yes their might have their own counterparts but it&#x27;s not like you will still use the same services, just look at how drastically the way you build and deploy applications has changed in 10 years.