I feel there is a lot of FUD spread whenever someone moves off the cloud, with the inane comparison to the annual wage of a dedicated sysadmin, trying to discourage you from doing a “reckless” migration which will bite you in the ass, your servers will catch fire every day and that it is better to stay within the golden handcuffs of AWS and GCP.

I wonder if it’s both stockholm syndrome and learned helplessness of developers that cannot imagine having to spend a little more effort and save, like OP, 90% off their monthly bill.

Yeah sure for some use cases AWS is the market leader, but let’s not kid ourselves, 9/10 companies on AWS don’t require more than a few servers and a database.