> If you have the people/skills and need control over exactly how your hardware is provisioned, go on-prem and good luck but plenty of us would rather concentra

> If you have the people/skills and need control over exactly how your hardware is provisioned, go on-prem and good luck but plenty of us would rather concentrate on what we are good at and are happy to pay 50-100K per year to a cloud provider to do it for us. This is the only thing that matters when you talk about AWS. All your other points are not mutual exclusive. I love the "good luck". As if it's some magic that we do to get applications run on the internet. It's not as hard as you think. Even scaling. These are solved problems and just abstracted away by AWS behind a paywall.