I disagree. The profit margin/markup cloud providers make increases the higher you climb the abstraction layer. 1GB of RAM is 10X more expensive in Lambda than

I disagree. The profit margin/markup cloud providers make increases the higher you climb the abstraction layer. 1GB of RAM is 10X more expensive in Lambda than in EC2, but costs AWS the same to provide. Second - services offered are a key selling point and driver of competition between clouds. they all want more features. Third - considering point 1 & 2, clouds prefer to offer their own versions of things. i.e AWS and the Elasticsearch fork.