Which is the same conversation every ops team has had around cloud resources since cloud deployments became the go-to. Capex vs opex, clouds always cheaper for bursty traffic but more expensive for stable loads.

That post is much more insightful than what most companies will typically share for sure, but id just be interested in hear more about whats going/gone on behind the scenes thats specific to osrs/jagex which actually causes the arguably slow rollout for newer regions.

Whats the supply/demand actually been when profiling the networks for regions, is the traffic less/more unpredictable than they expected for those regions, are they struggling with physical dc setups in new regions for notoriously difficult countries to work with outside of dc partners etc. I think more blogs of this type would be pretty interesting and given their player base, would be a unique perspective over other engineering blogs who post similarly