Would you agree the $300-500 is easily offset by any 1 production incident/outage that would require manual intervention on the airflow servers (and thus developer salary for however many hours to fix, and lost productivity elsewhere)?

I understand that the premium is paid _every month_ -- and you may not otherwise have an incident every month -- but the AWS premium can also be considered an _insurance premium_ against those outages.

I used to manage an airflow deployment (of which my team was the primary consumer), and it was not enjoyable in the least.