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by user5994461 2147 days ago
Maybe in the order of $50 rough estimate, that is 2 orders of magnitude less.

Bitcoin is designed to cost the price of electricity when mining on dedicated ASIC miners.

AWS costs are covering enterprise hardware with extra services, electricity is not one tenth of that, and AWS is using general purpose CPU (maybe GPU instances) which are not one tenth as efficient as ASIC.