For most people I agree. When AWS was first getting big though they solved genuine, really hard problems for a lot of organisations that were large or growing

For most people I agree. When AWS was first getting big though they solved genuine, really hard problems for a lot of organisations that were large or growing quickly. NVME drives didn't exist, SSDs were expensive and a lot of servers still had spinning SAS drives – A little box with some ram and some NVME drives didn't scale as ridiculously far as they do now. I do think as computers keep getting faster and smaller the number of use cases that need a 'cloud' shrink very quickly though.