by "everyone" I mean >90% of comments on this forum comparing aws to an alternative (90% of cases it's straight to colocation) Building your own datacenters is

by "everyone" I mean >90% of comments on this forum comparing aws to an alternative (90% of cases it's straight to colocation) Building your own datacenters is also an alternative to aws-ec2, but you go to that step by step (I think?) (dedicated > colocation > datacenter). In some cases when you have crazy growth you can skip a/some steps (ex: dropbox going from aws to their own datacenter) They don't even compare them in whatever $/request/latency/$metric since they don't even mention them. And dedicated has also many options from low-price+no-support-shitty-network to high price/good-network/support etc.