Perhaps an even better analogy is popcorn and soda at the movie theater. Its 10x the price of buying it at costco (perhaps 100x), but you are paying for the mov

Perhaps an even better analogy is popcorn and soda at the movie theater. Its 10x the price of buying it at costco (perhaps 100x), but you are paying for the movie. In the world of cloud computing this is things like TPUs. I think the lesson here is if you are merely looking for connected bandwidth, maybe cloud providers aren't for you. Shop elsewhere. The point of cloud computing is clearly moving in the direction of data-driven services, at large scale, for big businesses.