You sound like you think you're disagreeing with me, but that's actually my point. There's no point in charging by a metric so disconnected from either the cost

You sound like you think you're disagreeing with me, but that's actually my point. There's no point in charging by a metric so disconnected from either the costs or the benefits of the software. It makes sense for AWS to charge that way, because it is in fact directly connected to how their resources are being used.