I too never got this. Have learned using bare metal before AWS was around. Took a look at AWS in 2008 and decided that it was interesting, but nothing I had use

I too never got this. Have learned using bare metal before AWS was around. Took a look at AWS in 2008 and decided that it was interesting, but nothing I had use for at the time. Since then, I never felt any need for it, except for a few times when I wanted to emulate a distributed network for testing purposes. If I look into the AWS dashboard today, I feel totally overwhelmed, while running my own servers with LXC containers on it feels effortless. I guess for many it's the other way round. Don't really know what I'm missing, but I'm happy about the old school skillset I have, allows me to have a fraction of the infrastructure costs I would have otherwise for what I'm running.