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To get an application deployed on EC2 24×7, you need to allocate a full EC2 server for the month, which will cost you $70 at a minimum. However, with an elastic platform like Stax, your Java applications can be deployed for 24×7 operations, in a way that allows your application to only use a portion of a server during low-use hours, or none at all during completely idle periods.

If your application load is always steady-state, cloud elasticity won’t help you much, but if it has peak/non-peak load variation, it could dramatically reduce your costs since you won’t need to pay for a fully dedicated server all the time, which offering you the flexibility of elastic scalability as your load grows overtime.