> If your AWS costs are too complex for you to understand you need to employ a finops person or AWS specialist to handle it for you
At that point wouldn't it simply be cheaper to do VMs?
> If your AWS costs are too complex for you to understand you need to employ a finops person or AWS specialist to handle it for you
At that point wouldn't it simply be cheaper to do VMs?
Yes, very likely, but then why are you using AWS at all?
I think a lot of people are missing a key part of the wording of my comment, that capitalised for emphasis "IFF" (which means "if and only if").
I am absolutely certain a lot of people would save money using VMs - or at scale bare metal.
IMO a lot of people are using AWS because it is a "safe" choice management buy into that is not expensive in context (its not a big proportion of costs).