My experience as well; I had to become really intimate with aws over the years because I noticed more and more that consultants we hire (we don’t need fulltime)

My experience as well; I had to become really intimate with aws over the years because I noticed more and more that consultants we hire (we don’t need fulltime) for aws or other cloud setups, pull wool over your eyes by throwing out terms (you generally wouldn’t know outside these setups), saying the word ‘security’ a lot and showing extremely complex deployment charts which look great but contain many things you didn’t know you needed and probably do not need. I cannot count the times I found 1000-10000$/month of unneeded stuff at clients in these setups. First it was just ec2 (‘in the beginning’) which was more expensive than our vps/baremetal setups, but that price jumped up for only marginally more complex setups and so I decided to learn it all and see what was happening. Almost never justified in my experience.