I noticed this with bandwidth. AWS price for bandwidth: $90.00/TB after 0.1TB/month. Price everywhere else (low cost VPSes): $1.50/TB after 1-5TB/month. Price some places (dedicated servers): $0.00/TB up to ~100TB/month, $1.50/TB after.
You pay 60 times the price for the privilege of being on AWS.
Bandwidth is just their most egregious price difference. The servers are more expensive too. The storage is more expensive (except for Glacier). The serverless platforms are mostly more expensive than using a cheap server.
There are only two AWS products that I understand to have good prices: S3 Glacier (and only if you never restore!), and serverless apps (Lambda / API Gateway) if your traffic is low enough to fit in the Always Free tier. For everything else, it appears you get ripped off by using AWS.
You pay 60 times the price for the privilege of being on AWS.
Bandwidth is just their most egregious price difference. The servers are more expensive too. The storage is more expensive (except for Glacier). The serverless platforms are mostly more expensive than using a cheap server.
There are only two AWS products that I understand to have good prices: S3 Glacier (and only if you never restore!), and serverless apps (Lambda / API Gateway) if your traffic is low enough to fit in the Always Free tier. For everything else, it appears you get ripped off by using AWS.