[downer68]

Economy of scale, my dude.

An organization seeking to market a product based on any spare slack or wastage of their bare metal could stitch together a niche product like this from enough resources, and price it in the space where it nets them money, and is cheaper than something an individual or small business might be capable of building on their own, with the cheapest possible parts.

That's basically the the core principle of every cloud product being sold.