My experience from offering devops services on retainer to a number of clients is that the ones that host in cloud environments spend more money on me for simil

My experience from offering devops services on retainer to a number of clients is that the ones that host in cloud environments spend more money on me for similar scale setups than the ones that host on managed setups. And even if you don't want the hassle of storing the data yourself, there are many far cheaper outsourced options than S3.