I'm not going to argue that AWS can be expensive but in my experience its biggest advantage is SPEED. In every company I worked for that ran their own data cent

I'm not going to argue that AWS can be expensive but in my experience its biggest advantage is SPEED. In every company I worked for that ran their own data centers ever damn thing took FOREVER. new servers took months to buy and rack. any network change like a new VLAN took days to weeks. It was so annoying. But in AWS almost anything is just an API call and a few minutes at most from being enabled. It is so much more productive.