People pay for convenience. AWS is just convenient. Managing your own servers requires more work. It is far far far cheaper in terms of server costs. You do hav

People pay for convenience. AWS is just convenient. Managing your own servers requires more work. It is far far far cheaper in terms of server costs. You do have to: - Know how to maintain a server by yourself - Hire someone who can AWS removes part of that and thus people pay for it. An average (good enough) sys admin costs the same as a programmer.