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LAMP was a simple stack. It was performant, and not bloated. That's why 1000 different datacenters could provide the same service. Are there such sub-bundles in AWS that are cheap enough to run without amazon's scale ? Do people even need that huge scaling capability or is AWS just convenient?

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I honestly don’t get this myself. I understand AWS for a fast moving startup, but I’m seeing friends start hobby projects that will never need more than one $5/m shared dedicated host, and pay $60/m for worse performance.

Personally I use DigitalOcean for this sort of thing. But this is why AWS has Lightsail https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/ to service that use case and then let people upgrade later to full AWS.

They're doing that to learn AWS!

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