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I don't think you can discount them like that. Maybe they aren't as front of mind as services like S3, EC2, etc, but if you were to try to rebuild your setup in

I don't think you can discount them like that. Maybe they aren't as front of mind as services like S3, EC2, etc, but if you were to try to rebuild your setup in a personal data center, replacing the capabilities of VPC, IAM, CloudTrail, NAT gateways, ELBs, KMS etc would be a huge effort on your part. The fact that they are "basic building blocks" makes them more important, not less. In a discussion about the complexity of cloud providers versus other setups, that seems especially relevant.

p_l 6y ago
Oh, I meant it more in terms of "can you count on them as optional services". Because they aren't optional, and yes, it takes non trivial amount to replicate them... but funnily enough, several of them have to be replicated elsewhere too. NAT gateways usually aren't an issue, KMS for many places can be done relatively quickly with Hashicorp Vault. IAM is a weird case, because unless you're building a cloud for others to use it's not necessarily that important, meanwhile your own authorization framework is necessary even on AWS because you can't just piggy back on IAM (I wish I could).