The thing is that self hosting kind of already has cost gates. Whenever I needed to buy another $100K of servers, we had to make a deck and have a skip level me

The thing is that self hosting kind of already has cost gates. Whenever I needed to buy another $100K of servers, we had to make a deck and have a skip level meeting 2-3 levels up to explain the capacity planning spend. On the other hand, in AWS, at my last shop.. we were just .. doing stuff. We at one point noticed a non-production RDS instance was going to run us $60k/year. This was for some small part of our processing, that in on-prem land would just occupy a slice of one of our $30k servers. But in cloud, we had the pleasure of $5k/month until we noticed & turned it off. At the scale our estate worked, we had easily 100 entities that could trigger this kind of spend.