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Also beyond a certain point, it makes sense to go straight to dedicated bare metal. The AWS tax is not worth paying if your workload is mostly fixed, somewhat fault tolerant (i.e. failed hardware on the weekends can be replaced on Monday without major interruption to business operations), and CPU bound. Get a high end machine on Hetzner and put everything behind a VPN or API auth and you will save more than 50% in spending.

>>KRAKRI+(OP)
I haven't found this to be true generally unless your workloads are truly completely static, which I've never actually experienced.

Given what engineers at this level cost, their costs per hour dealing with all of the nonsense clouds handle for you (networking, storage, elastic scaling, instant replacement of faulty servers, load balancing, yadda yadda) end up being higher than whatever tax you're paying for using the cloud.

Economies of scale are real.