This - if you have to fetch data from or output data to outside of the AWS ecosystem, the 512mb /tmp limit pushes you into the additional (relative) complexity of having to run on Fargate pretty quickly. Just had to deal with this for a content ingest job involving pulling a couple GB of data from an FTP server, processing it and pushing it into an RDS database on an hourly basis. Would have been super simple if the file was on S3 already.
I live in LA and travel to the Bay for work frequently. I can walk to a Metro station from my house in Highland Park in 10 minutes and be at Union Station in 13 minutes. If I could spend 3 hours on the train to SF from Union instead of driving to Burbank, arriving an hour before my flight, and then spending an hour on a plane, I would do it every time.
But the COST of the interest is in year 0 dollars. I may be buying Cokes in 2015 dollars, but if the price is set in 1900 dollars I'm getting a shitload more Cokes.
But I'm buying a $500k house in 2015 dollars. If we peg the appreciation of the house only to the long-term inflation average of 3.22% over the next 30 years and I purchase the house today at current 30-year fixed rates of 4.09%, I'm going to pay a total of $868,713 over the lifetime of the loan for something which will be worth $1,178,775 (in 2045 dollars). I will have made $310,062 in 2045 dollars, while also having a place to live the whole time.
Even if we factor in other costs during that period beyond loan servicing, such as insurance, taxes, utility repairs and maintenance it seems unlikely I will have LOST money in the process.
It's not a terribly GOOD investment, but it's not a financially asinine choice either.
Poverty may be a necessary condition for "startup" success in the somewhat narrow definition of a startup common in our industry, but the idea that it's necessary for BUSINESS success is total nonsense, which is a useful thing to remember when you're feeling artificially burdened by being over 30 and middle class(!) The bulk of new wealth in human history has been created by people who already have some modicum of existing wealth, or access to it.
This is 4 blocks from me. I went to check it out but there was a line of around 150 people out the door and I bailed since I wasn't willing to invest the 90 minutes in line.