What kind of services are you guys running that require you to scale up and down? Why not get one or two dedicated server(s) and run everything on them!? The post had no numbers, but I'm pretty sure you would come off even cheaper if you use dedicated servers, even managed.
I'm running a workload that takes about 3 minutes to run per request (compute heavy MVP), which means that a big surge of users once a day at peak would require a LOT of dedicated servers to serve in time.
My plan is to use dedicated servers for most of the load and some elastic capacity at peak loads if necessary.
I have a similar use case in mind, TBF I plan to just keep a small EC2 instance up for this need, and assemble a nice PC at home to catch up with the queue from my home for heavy workloads, the cost is so much cheaper and I get a PC as well! Worst case I spin up one more worker with more specs if the queue gets long. Sounds less effort than doing all this scaling work for a MVP and counterproductive when I'd rather spend more time on my actual logic
