>Maybe they did a cost-benefit analysis between making AWS extremely quick to get started Yeah, one key issue is that it's deceptively easy to set something up

>Maybe they did a cost-benefit analysis between making AWS extremely quick to get started Yeah, one key issue is that it's deceptively easy to set something up in AWS, but there's actually a ton of customizability, complexity and potential gotchas lurking in the background. They've essentially SaaS-ified sysadmin, network admin, DBA, etc. roles. So relatively casual users are pointing, clicking, copying and pasting like they're just navigating any ol' app, but beneath the surface they're commanding potentially massive/unlimited resources with the attendant costs those resources impute. Makes you wonder whether it's just too much power to casually have on offer.