[noahtallen]

I think the public cloud is a good choice for startups, teams, and projects which don't have infrastructure experience. Plenty of companies still have their own infrastructure expertise and roll their own CDNs, as an example.

Not only can one save a significant amount of money, it can also be simpler to troubleshoot and resolve issues when you have a simpler backend tech stack. Perhaps that doesn’t apply in this case, but there are plenty of use cases which don’t need a hundred micro services on AWS, none of which anyone fully understands.