Sorry but it's not the same. When you use your own hardware you have to scale it to handle the peak usage times. This is often a small fraction of the day.
I don't like putting databases in the cloud, but there you pay closer to actual usage instead of 24x7 at max capacity.
BTW I was thinking in open-source options. Or commercial ones with a less draconian licensing (if there are any left).
> I don't like putting databases in the cloud, but there you pay closer to actual usage instead of 24x7 at max capacity.
Bad news again - with Amazon RDS and Azure SQL DB, you pay a fee based on instance size, and you can't scale up/down instantly with demand. (You can scale automatically, but it takes quite a bit of work - you don't "pay actual usage."
I don't like putting databases in the cloud, but there you pay closer to actual usage instead of 24x7 at max capacity.
BTW I was thinking in open-source options. Or commercial ones with a less draconian licensing (if there are any left).