The issue for me is we don't have funding, so just pay coming out of savings until we make money.
The cheapest seems to be more than $40, but based on the description its only allocated $5 to $10 worth of computing. I am using Linode or Digital Ocean pricing for that, but even with Amazon's inflated EC2 pricing it's probably like $25 max.
So I can't justify paying $40 per month when I can get the same horsepower for $10 or $20. I can set up an open source system for monitoring and containers restart automatically.
For people that have $200,000 burning a hole in their pocket, it may be a different story.
You're completely right. You can get an amazing server in a very good hosting provider at a fraction of AWS. Really. You can get for $200/month a good server in a good hosting that costs literally $5000/month or more on AWS. Azure and Google are not different.
What you don't get is all their regions, easy scalability with EBS, managed services, etc. But all of that has a very high price, and depending on who you are and what you're trying to do, these cloud providers are probably the worst option.
The cheapest seems to be more than $40, but based on the description its only allocated $5 to $10 worth of computing. I am using Linode or Digital Ocean pricing for that, but even with Amazon's inflated EC2 pricing it's probably like $25 max.
So I can't justify paying $40 per month when I can get the same horsepower for $10 or $20. I can set up an open source system for monitoring and containers restart automatically.
For people that have $200,000 burning a hole in their pocket, it may be a different story.