alt Hacker NewsYou and another person made this point _but_ I’d encourage you to look at what $50/mo gets you on AWS all in. In reality it will get you a t4g.small plus 200GB of (very slow) storage. Honestly they start to chug at 500 or so users in my experience.
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Which is why you should not be going to AWS to begin with when there are plenty of providers who will give you orders of magnitude more performance for this price.
(of course, say goodbye to resume points and your cloud provider conference invite. Question is, what are you trying to do? Are you building a business, or a resume?)
If you look at what $50 a month gets you at OVH or Hetzner then their post makes more sense.
It isn’t an apples to apples comparison. But, you trade some additional operational overhead for a whole lot more hardware.
For this you avoid AWS, Azure and GCP. Their pricing is simply not competitive. We operate root servers at Hetzner serving dynamic content to six-figure audiences.
PostgreSQL and Elasticsearch clusters can be operated at a fraction of the cost of comparable managed services offered by the major cloud providers.
The idea that this necessarily involves excessive maintenance effort is nonsense.
The skills needed to use hyperscalers properly are better invested in fundamental sysadmin know-how.