The original, main value proposition was that you don't need to physically manage your server anymore. Some products are just wrapped, managed versions of somet

The original, main value proposition was that you don't need to physically manage your server anymore. Some products are just wrapped, managed versions of something you're already familiar with. Then there are more "original" offerings like DynamoDB, Bigquery, and Bigtable that bring a lot of value on their own and are significantly easier to operate at large scale than any open source equivalent.