>Many companies spend enough on AWS to buy an entire rack of hardware at a different data center every month and pay 2-3 employees to manage it. That hardware w

>Many companies spend enough on AWS to buy an entire rack of hardware at a different data center every month and pay 2-3 employees to manage it. That hardware would be up to 100X as fast and powerful as what they rent at AWS and bandwidth would be almost free. That's a really distorted market. The amortized costs should not be this different. I think the issue here is that it's not zero-cost to switch. Your processes will adapt to some implicit assumptions that aren't true outside AWS, Azure, or whatever vendor you locked yourself into. If we somehow managed to have a completely standardized interface here, the market would be more competitive.