AWS is insanely overpriced. It&#x27;s weird to me that everyone jumping on AWS and some of their customers never come close to attracting the internet traffic required to set up CloudFormation. I think if you&#x27;re starting a webapp out of your own pocket and not millions of dollars of investors, it makes sense to save where you can.<p>Using locust.io, I&#x27;ve seen that my current site on two $10&#x2F;month Linodes can scale up to approximately 300k people&#x2F;day and increasing that substantially just means I press a button and upgrade my app&#x2F;database servers.<p>If it came to a point where I was growing at a pace I didn&#x27;t want to manage and money was flowing in, and I was out of ideas on software optimization, only then I would consider spending tens of thousands&#x2F;month on AWS.<p>I&#x27;m not denying the great benefits AWS gives, I honestly would love to use it now and just be done with most of my devop headaches, but the costs are prohibitive.