If you look from business perspective AWS consultant is as opaque as any SysAdmin with bare metal servers. You don't even know if Sys Admin is doing any backup

If you look from business perspective AWS consultant is as opaque as any SysAdmin with bare metal servers. You don't even know if Sys Admin is doing any backups at all. From perspective of a person that does not know anything about administering systems tweaking stuff in AWS is I would say a lot easier than setting up a server properly. So people that know nothing about administering systems pay more because they don't have the knowledge. If you have the knowledge then yes it is cheaper to run your own sever but what is obvious or easy for one person is not really true for someone else.