This is why you don’t run in the cloud. I’m paying (amortized) 300 bucks a month for a physical k8s cluster, multi-region, hundreds of physical cores, terabytes of disk space, and oodles of RAM (64gb per machine). The same cluster would cost over ten grand a month in the cloud, for what? Scaling? I’m actually comfortably overprovisioned.<p>People underestimate how many requests a (real) server can handle. For the vast majority of businesses, the cloud is overkill and expensive. Sure, it means that you have to drive somewhere and replace some hardware instead of pushing a button, but most places offer “remote hands” to do that for you.