Before Netflix and iTunes/Spotify, people were convinced that nobody would ever pay for movies and music on computers ever again. Turns out a product more conv

Before Netflix and iTunes/Spotify, people were convinced that nobody would ever pay for movies and music on computers ever again. Turns out a product more convenient than piracy was worth people paying money for. Now there are 18 streaming services and piracy rates are climbing again. Ebbs and flows. Open source software is amazing but infrastructure development is a substantial part of any businesses development costs. AWS offers higher level abstractions - for a fee. In our industry people always take that option, until the cloud providers value proposition becomes no longer attractive, and open source innovation flourishes again. AWS makes really good stuff, there is value in that.