My point was that by not needing many resources, and not scaling quickly, it is much easier for Basecamp to run on their own machines. That said, compute and s

My point was that by not needing many resources, and not scaling quickly, it is much easier for Basecamp to run on their own machines. That said, compute and storage tend to be the cheapest products from cloud providers, as they are the products that the other "value add" products are built on top of where more margin is made. For example, EC2 is much cheaper than Lambda for the compute you get, because Lambda does a lot more for you.