I encourage you to have a look at the operating income that AWS rakes in.
Sure, the amount of expertise, redundancy and breadth of service offerings they provide is worth a markup, but they are also significantly more expensive than they need to be.
Thanks to being the leader in an oligopoly, and due to patterns like making network egress unjustifiably expensive to keep you (/your data) from leaving.
Sure, the amount of expertise, redundancy and breadth of service offerings they provide is worth a markup, but they are also significantly more expensive than they need to be.
Thanks to being the leader in an oligopoly, and due to patterns like making network egress unjustifiably expensive to keep you (/your data) from leaving.