I'm tired of modern "subscriptions everywhere" too, but OTOH SaaS is burning money even if nobody's using it at the moment. AWS doesn't care if EC2 instance is

I'm tired of modern "subscriptions everywhere" too, but OTOH SaaS is burning money even if nobody's using it at the moment. AWS doesn't care if EC2 instance is idling :-) That cost is either included in pay-as-you-go price, or paid as a subscription fee.