AWS Costs Disproportionately High for Early-Stage Products
A solo developer is paying $142/month in AWS costs for a product with only 9 users and no revenue, illustrating the mismatch between cloud infrastructure pricing and early-stage product economics. The post is primarily a progress update rather than a defined problem statement.
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