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It’s not the first time I’ve written about this. The hyperscalers are pretty much the most expensive way to build a business that isn’t presently hyperscale, and their ecosystems are increasingly optimized for sprawling stacks built on a virtually unlimited number of microservices.

That’s just not a realistic or necessary approach for everyone.

AWS is engineered for excruciatingly detailed billing right down to the moment you’re consuming or releasing capacity, and that’s how they built it. Managing that spend is exhausting.

My business runs on under $200/mo in Linode compute resources and the performance is significantly better than on similarly situated EC2 instances. We were spending that on databases alone with AWS and getting a fraction of the performance.

I make extensive use of “pure” Linode Kubernetes Engine k8s. It’s portable to any other Kubernetes cluster, and it lets me take my stack _anywhere_, even to a rack in the nearest data center willing to rent me space, if I really wanted.