Ask HN: When to choose AWS over a more typical VPS provider?
Our startup needs to move the hosting for our web app from a dev shop's physical server into the cloud.
The app runs a pretty standard Linux/Apache/MySQL/Java stack, doesn't have any serious computation or storage requirements, and targets a very niche market; 25 concurrent users would be the absolute maximum load expected for the next 6-12 months. It needs to be accessible 24 hours a day, but it's also no big deal if the app is down for a minute during a deploy.
The dev shop keeps pushing AWS, but I've heard enough horror stories about hidden charges and billing overages that I'm wary. Given the minimal load on the server, it doesn't seem like we'd need the scalability of Elastic Beanstalk or the storage of S3.
Are there any considerations I'm missing? How would you choose a host in this situation?
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