They leave out major costs because they don't pay those costs. Power, Cooling, Real Estate are all significant drivers of AWS costs. Researchers don't pay tho

They leave out major costs because they don't pay those costs. Power, Cooling, Real Estate are all significant drivers of AWS costs. Researchers don't pay those costs directly. The university does, sure, but to the researcher, that means those costs are pre-paid. Going to AWS means you're essentially paying for those costs twice. plus all the profit margin and availability that AWS provides that you also don't need.