Maybe, but the increased development costs are incredibly high as soon as you move from a monolith, so much so that the deployment costs, no matter how large, will be dwarfed. For example, in my current setup, having a &quot;mini&quot; services architecture (typical monolith split up into three parts + supporting services) is probably costing us about 25% of our time. In other words, if we had a monolith, we&#x27;d be able to spend 3 extra months a year developing or refactoring that are now wasted in the slow development process that is caused slowly by the boundaries between applications.