Is it actually a lot easier? By what metric? I'm assuming when you say "host your own servers" you mean actual hardware, right? So getting the hardware, settin

Is it actually a lot easier? By what metric? I'm assuming when you say "host your own servers" you mean actual hardware, right? So getting the hardware, setting it up, hooking it up, reliably, to power and the internet, physically securing it, maintaining hardware, that's "a lot easier" than using a couple EC2 instances across availability zones?