Most managed hosting providers have some form of Openstack or an API to provision baremetal servers or something similar. It is easy to sit back and say AWS is

Most managed hosting providers have some form of Openstack or an API to provision baremetal servers or something similar. It is easy to sit back and say AWS is really easy; but it just means you haven't looked elsewhere. Additionally most public clouds have law enforcement or government entities monitoring or tracking things (to an unknown scale). You are always better off in a regular datacenter. If you don't know why maybe you should hire someone to tell you why. > Free answers are good. But if you want great answers you have to pay.