[dannyw]

In general, AWS/GCP/Azure hosting rates are only slightly marked up as compared to DigitalOcean, Vultr, etc. especially with reserved instances.

These rates compare favourably to rolling your own DC (rack or more).

It’s the bandwidth costs that are inflated by 500-1000%, which is where all the margins come from and it creates a lock in effect as getting your data out is expensive.

[takeda]

This shows how Netflix is smart harnessing it, they use AWS for everything except the actual streaming.