[kayoone]

At my last startup we were running everything off of AWS but i would not do it again except for some short running toy projects. We ended up paying a few hundred $ per month for a web and db server that were just barely usable in terms of speed.

Compare that to a box i can get for EUR 50 over at Hetzner that alone is multiple times faster than the 2 small AWS vms . Need another one ? Will be provisioned in about an hour...don't need an instance anymore ? Cancel it by the end of the month, no long term contracts. Yes there is a one-time fee for setting up a new box, but thats about it. And you don't believe how far you can get with a proper beefy 2, maybe 3 machine setup..For EUR 150 you get power equivalent to spending >1000 on AWS easily.

Today AWS to me only makes sense for short term computing projects or something very time limited (eg <4weeks) or if money simply doesn't matter. Everything else is just marketing bla, i still need todo the same setup work on AWS.