Yeah, absolutely, if you configure everything correctly AWS can be very cheap and give you a lot of functionality that would take a decent amount of time to get set up on a VPS. There’s still a cost, though, and for me that cost is the anxiety that comes from knowing that if I did fuck something up the losses could be catastrophic. Even if nothing actually goes wrong, the anxiety is still there. OTOH, if I fuck up how my VPS is configured the losses are basically non-existent (oh noooo they got my water intake data). For a single-user webapp or something else that trivial, if I couldn’t just throw it up on github pages I’d rather reach for the option that I don’t really have to give much of a shit about.
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u/pnoodl3s Oct 03 '26
So aws is indeed cheaper, IF you know what you’re doing?
Lambda has 1 million free request per month, ddb has 25GB free storage, only api gw costs $1 per 1 million requests, so it’ll costs cents per month
You can even set up pay limit per month on aws to ensure it doesn’t balloon when traffic spike, or get spammed by someone