Far more expensive than just having a dumb server somewhere at some normal host.
People simply do not understand how expen$ive AWS is, and how little value it actually has for most people.
People simply do not understand how expen$ive AWS is, and how little value it actually has for most people.
A lot of other people also pick it for very narrow use cases where it wouldn't have been that much more time to learn and do it themselves and end up paying a lot of money and also aren't happy
It's pretty nice for mid-size startups to completely ignore performance and capacity planning and be able to quickly churn out features while accumulating tech debt and hoping they make it long enough to pay the tech debt back
You can just drag and drop a folder and have a static site hosted in a few minutes.