If you're using it for three years, then you'd take an RI and it'd be 60% of the cost. You also don't have to worry about failed parts, hardware monitoring, rac

If you're using it for three years, then you'd take an RI and it'd be 60% of the cost. You also don't have to worry about failed parts, hardware monitoring, racking, power, etc, plus the skills required to manage same. Yes it is more expensive than buying your own hardware, but I thought we all understood at this point that AWS does a little more than just give you an empty server and no additional services.