disagree. the only area it really hurts the wallet is multi-AZ on your RDS, because it doubles your cost no matter what and RDS is toughest to scale horizontally. The upside is if you scale your data layer horizontally you don't need to use RDS anymore.
two c1.medium, which are very nice for webservers, are enough to host >1M pageviews a month (wordpress, not much caching) and cost around $120/mo each, effective $97/mo if you prepay for 12months at a time via reserved instances.
two c1.medium, which are very nice for webservers, are enough to host >1M pageviews a month (wordpress, not much caching) and cost around $120/mo each, effective $97/mo if you prepay for 12months at a time via reserved instances.