alt Hacker NewsYou can rent bare metal server for that. The real advantage of cloud solution is a cohesive offer, ease of scalability, and many other things which boils down to "we take care of things for you". It can be worth the $, i can also be a huge waste of $.
Ease of scalability - "it starts at 0.01x, but adding extra increments of 0.01x is easy, provided your app is designed for horizontal scalability"