> replace AWS with <cloud provider> and every bullet point is still True. No they're not. AWS is pretty much the most expensive, sometimes by a factor of 10 or

> replace AWS with <cloud provider> and every bullet point is still True. No they're not. AWS is pretty much the most expensive, sometimes by a factor of 10 or more - especially for egress traffic. > For cloud providers, point of failure occurs if you don't pay them. "It's in the cloud" doesn't mean you don't have to think about reliability, redundancy, and backups. AWS, GCP etc all had outages. All points of failure are exactly the same vs. buying bare-metal. In the case of "the cloud" they're just partly managed by other people. But yes, as I said, there are choices with trade-offs. Overall I'm unsure what you're trying to tell me with your comment. Is your argument that not choosing the cloud isn't really an option? I have not chosen AWS for a decade and saved a seven figure sum in the process (just for my private projects - 500TB monthly egress alone already would be expensive).