[viraptor]

Not necessarily doing less stuff. There are basic things like Singapore being more expensive than the US, so why not host there? Maybe analyse if you use that much storage all the time, or would some mix of EBS/S3 be better? How much utilisation is there really? Maybe you can scale down often? Or use bare metal instances rather than EC2? Also, you can negotiate way lower pricing that what's published.

This post is basically "see how bad a knife is for unscrewing screws". They're showing off how unfamiliar they are with AWS offering. And that's unrelated to which solution wins for this scenario.