> Where are you going to store this thing? Pay for the power? Cool it? Replace failing hardware?
There are plenty of cloud providers who sell colocation services or even rent bare metal hardware.
Take for instance Hetzner. They rent 32-core AMD EPYC boxes wth 128GB of RAM for about 130€/month. If you rent a half a dozen of those boxes you get more computational bang for a fraction of the buck.
If you reach a scale where your needs span tens of data centers across the world then the economies of scale and operational expenditure are quite different and peculiar, but still they a couple of orders of magnitude cheaper than AWS.
There are plenty of cloud providers who sell colocation services or even rent bare metal hardware.
Take for instance Hetzner. They rent 32-core AMD EPYC boxes wth 128GB of RAM for about 130€/month. If you rent a half a dozen of those boxes you get more computational bang for a fraction of the buck.
If you reach a scale where your needs span tens of data centers across the world then the economies of scale and operational expenditure are quite different and peculiar, but still they a couple of orders of magnitude cheaper than AWS.