[bbrunner]

I'd like to see this same sort of thing done with updates for the lower 2014 pricing and in either the US West Oregon Region or the US East Region instead of Northern California. NorCal is roughly 10% more costly for many instance types.

Edit: And a little more attention paid to cost of maintenance and outages, which does factor into the decision of self-hosted vs AWS quite heavily. This article sort of does some hand-waving to get away from it, but it is an important consideration.