Usually this would be called a PaaS (Platform as a Service). It's another layer on top of a public cloud, AWS in this case. Someone looking to save money on se

Usually this would be called a PaaS (Platform as a Service). It's another layer on top of a public cloud, AWS in this case. Someone looking to save money on server costs by using a hosting company would effectively be going the other way in the stack: taking the cloud out of the equation and operating servers directly. The original poster in this thread acquired a hosting company to be able to provide this kind of service in their vertical.