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I know ec2 people find it extraordinary having 32 cores, but on ovh you can get machine with 20c and 40 hyper threads and 256 GB of RAM for less than 350$ a month.

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I know ec2 people find it extraordinary having 32 cores

How do you figure? As an 'EC2 person' I found that EC2 has made arbitrary specs utterly mundane and that is kind of the whole awesome point of EC2.

Need 200GB of RAM for the afternoon to process some data? No problem, just press a button and a minute later you have 200GB of RAM for the afternoon to process some data. Then just turn it off when you are done and forget about it.

I agree, but who spins up 32 cores for postgresql instance which is up 24/7?

If you need it, it's a bit over $1000/month. Which on the one hand is perhaps 2-3x more than renting a dedicated server. On the other hand it's only 2-3x times more than renting a dedicated server and if you have other stuff on AWS and make use of the rest of their features it might be worth while.

Yup. Small multiples of price inefficiency mostly don't bear thinking about until they group together in large batches. The time it takes your engineers to work out the difference is rarely worth it.

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