This hits on something in the calculation that I feel is very hard to factor in, the cost of development time. Sure, there are plenty of ways to do these things cheaper on a hardware&#x2F;software cost per user basis, but more often than not I&#x27;ve found that we can get changes out so much faster in AWS that you&#x27;re easily saving thousands in developer time, which would seem to more than cover the extra cost to me.