We are heavily invested in AWS. AWS is not cheaper, but it doesn't mean it's prohibitively expensive when you consider everything it offers. What people tend

We are heavily invested in AWS. AWS is not cheaper, but it doesn't mean it's prohibitively expensive when you consider everything it offers. What people tend to ignore are the other things it offers. For example, the parent talks about data transfer costs, but that's just one aspect of cost. The real big cost in any organization is head count. And while a load balancer is not difficult to setup and maintain the first time, managing it becomes time consuming in a large enough organization. Couple that with everything else... If someone can replicate what AWS is doing at a lower cost, people would move to them. But there are few companies out there that come close. Bandwidth cost is generally not your biggest expense.