[czbond]

Most if not all services, I feel are a good enough value...when I consider my "time" or hiring consultants time to do the same, etc.

A single example was GuardDuty above. I know how expensive similar to GuardDuty services are per month when you have to have a well planned strategy, implementation, execution, operations for threats... no matter if one does it "in house" or with "consultants" - the cost is very high to implement anything similar to GuardDuty. No matter if it is duct taped open source or enterprise offerings.

And then you have to do that same iterative business process loop across infrastructure (servers/database), data centers, code deployment, DevOps, security, etc etc.