Comment AWS is too expensive (Score 4, Insightful) 142
A couple of questions for you:
1) What happens when your single server goes down? How long does it take you to get back up and running?
2) What happens if your demand is spiky?
If you're going to use an instance for a year constantly, you need to look at reserved instances. That brings the price down to $3054 for the year which is not bad as you don't pay for electricity or cooling.