Definitely agree that the other services are marked-up too! The issue is one of leveraging developer time at a dynamic startup. At some scale, it becomes cost

Definitely agree that the other services are marked-up too! The issue is one of leveraging developer time at a dynamic startup. At some scale, it becomes cost-effective to manage your own application cluster. At some (usually larger?) scale, it becomes a good idea to administrate your own database cluster. We're definitely not big enough to consider managing our own RabbitMQ or log aggregator or other ancillary services from a developer-time opportunity cost/benefit perspective, though!