They probably assume you have to pay for 24/7 DC tech / sysadmin types to do the racking, setup, etc. that AWS automates and are factoring it into the price. T

They probably assume you have to pay for 24/7 DC tech / sysadmin types to do the racking, setup, etc. that AWS automates and are factoring it into the price. To be fair, that is part of the cost. However, unless you are really big, you will just pay remote hands which is like $100-200/hr. The number of incidents are probably way too few, even at 200k a month, for 24/7 on-site sysadmins/techs.