Not even remotely the same scale of problem. Like at all.
If your business suddenly starts generating Tbs of traffic (that is not a ddos), you'd be thrilled to pay overage fees because your business just took off.
You don't usually get $10k bandwidth fees because your misconfigured service consumes too much CPU.
And besides that, for most of these cases, a small business can host on-prem with zero bandwidth fees of any type, ever. If you can get by with a gigabit uplink, you have nothing to worry about. And if you're at the scale where AWS overages are a real problem, you almost certainly don't need more than you can get with a surplus server and a regular business grade fiber link.
This is very much not an all-or-nothing situation. There is a vast segment of industry that absolutely does not need anything more than a server in a closet wired to the internet connection your office already has. My last job paid $100/mo for an AWS instance to host a GitLab server for a team of 20. We could have gotten by with a junk laptop shoved in a corner and got the exact same performance and experience. It once borked itself after an update and railed the CPU for a week, which cost us a bunch of money. Would never have been an issue on-prem. Even if we got DDoSed or somehow stuck saturating the uplink, our added cost would be zero. Hell, the building was even solar powered, so we wouldn't have even paid for the extra 40W of power or the air conditioning.
Depends where you order your server. If you order from the same scammers that sell you "serverless" then sure. If you order from a more legitimate operator (such as literally any hosting company out there) you get unmetered bandwidth with at worst a nasty email and a request to lower your usage after hitting hundreds of TBs transferred.
I mean real servers get hit with things like bandwidth fees so it's not a 100% solution.
Not even remotely the same scale of problem. Like at all.
If your business suddenly starts generating Tbs of traffic (that is not a ddos), you'd be thrilled to pay overage fees because your business just took off.
You don't usually get $10k bandwidth fees because your misconfigured service consumes too much CPU.
And besides that, for most of these cases, a small business can host on-prem with zero bandwidth fees of any type, ever. If you can get by with a gigabit uplink, you have nothing to worry about. And if you're at the scale where AWS overages are a real problem, you almost certainly don't need more than you can get with a surplus server and a regular business grade fiber link.
This is very much not an all-or-nothing situation. There is a vast segment of industry that absolutely does not need anything more than a server in a closet wired to the internet connection your office already has. My last job paid $100/mo for an AWS instance to host a GitLab server for a team of 20. We could have gotten by with a junk laptop shoved in a corner and got the exact same performance and experience. It once borked itself after an update and railed the CPU for a week, which cost us a bunch of money. Would never have been an issue on-prem. Even if we got DDoSed or somehow stuck saturating the uplink, our added cost would be zero. Hell, the building was even solar powered, so we wouldn't have even paid for the extra 40W of power or the air conditioning.
Depends where you order your server. If you order from the same scammers that sell you "serverless" then sure. If you order from a more legitimate operator (such as literally any hosting company out there) you get unmetered bandwidth with at worst a nasty email and a request to lower your usage after hitting hundreds of TBs transferred.