It's honestly ridiculous that people now see that self hosting is stupidly cheaper and still 99.9% reliable.

No your service does not need the extra .099% availability for 100x the price...

Make your own VPN while you are at it, wireguard is basically the same config.

I think AI coding is another part of why this is seeing a resurgence. It’s a lot quicker to build quick and dirty scripts or debug the random issues that come up self hosting.

For company hosting cloud solutions gets you the various compliance stuff for free which can be worth it if you're not too large, and of course faster turnaround if you need to get a product out.

For personal a cheap vps will end up costing around the same as something you can do on your own, without the risk of messing up your machine/network from a vulnerable endpont

A lot of this is support. If you’re self hosting, when things don’t work the way they should, the team has no one to blame. On AWS, they can always lean on aws not working the way it should as an excuse.