I think you misread the comment you responded to. It didn’t mean ”I suspect that what they are getting from Amazon isn’t a dedicated server”. Rather it meant

I think you misread the comment you responded to. It didn’t mean ”I suspect that what they are getting from Amazon isn’t a dedicated server”. Rather it meant ”I suspect that they’re getting a dedicated server from somewhere else that isn’t Amazon”. The original comment was talking about a dedicated machine for personal projects with a fixed cost of $40/month.