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If you only want a server, OVH/Hetzner are much cheaper for the same performance. To me, AWS/GCP/Azure only really make sense if you start using the whole ecosystem. Otherwise you can get the same for half the price..

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I've spent the last 3 years doing AWS stuff at work and agree 100%. If all you're using is EC2 then it's not a great value. Where it's worthwhile are the other services you can tie in to really easily. At work we're using:

  SQS
  SNS
  RDS
  S3
  Athena/Glue
  EMR
  CloudWatch
  Lambda
  CloudWatch Events
  EC2 Autoscaling, ELB, ALB
  Elasticsearch Service
  Glacier
  ElastiCache
  Route 53
  CloudFront
  Data Pipeline

It's spendy, no question. None of this is stuff you can't do yourself on cheap instances. We'd just need an additional 2-3 FTEs to maintain the homegrown jungle of crap that would replace the managed services. Oops, there went my savings.

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