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The cloud is over-engineered and over-priced for personal projects and small groups. If you're a larger company and want high-availability and speed globally, then you're probably wanting a cloud provider nowadays unless you're really wanting to manage hardware yourself.
Setting up your own website for fun or something for your local business obviously doesn't need a fancy Kubernetes setup in EKS. Hell, even a moderate business could be fine if you're not expecting usage spikes or latency issues (although you'd probably want more than a repurposed desktop).
How many companies need such a scale, but are not able to provide it inhouse for less money?
Everyone wants to be Netflix, but 99% of companies don't even need close to that amount of scalability. I'd argue, a significant part of projects could be run on a raspberry pi, if they'd be engineered properly.
I mean IMO Raspberry Pi cluster are the future. Low power, cheap CPU's/Ram that are capable of running containerized workloads.