Amazon blog post in which they describe moving off serverless and to a good old monolith with a thought through architecture:

"Moving our service to a monolith reduced our infrastructure cost by over 90%. It also increased our scaling capabilities."

Looks like without the flow of free money, some teams are coming back to their senses.

https://www.primevideotech.com/video-streaming/scaling-up-the-prime-video-audio-video-monitoring-service-and-reducing-costs-by-90

Scaling up the Prime Video audio/video monitoring service and reducing costs by 90%

The move from a distributed microservices architecture to a monolith application helped achieve higher scale, resilience, and reduce costs.

Prime Video Tech
@_lennart I guess it’s more the refactoring or the greenfield approach and not so much the underlying deployment model. Ir at least I‘d say this scenario is ideal to save money while haven’t other benefits aswell. Throw away all legacy code.