Why Do Companies Pay AWS So Much?

Ivan Burazin says companies pay AWS because it takes the infrastructure work off their plate, not because it is a luxury brand. AWS is the most expensive cloud he uses, and the CPUs Daytona runs there cost the most of any CPUs the company has. When AWS goes down, a large part of the internet goes down with it, and the customer is not the one who gets blamed.

The reason to pay is the software stack. A cloud is how a team outsources DevOps: the racks, the power, the management, and the observability. Bare metal is still available inside AWS for teams that want it. The contract changes the bill again. Month to month is the top of that market. A multi-year commit is a different price. He contrasts that with Hetzner, a low-cost European provider he considers a real product at a very different price, not the same product sold cheap.