[arinlen]

> AWS managed to make things so much easier and cheaper compared to “classic” hosting that you now need twice as many devops employees and spend 10x in bills.

I'm far from a AWS fan but this take can't even be deemed an apples-to-orange comparison.

"Classical" hosting at best matches EC2. The absolute high-end "classical" hosting offers at best also offer something resembling EC2's VPC. Forget about regions, let alone anything resembling availability zones.

Everything else that AWS offers ends up being nice-to-have conveniences. Stuff like object storage and pub-sub and message queues and managed nosql and classical RDBMS services and managed kubernetes and integrated infrastrucure-as-code systems are way outside what a "classical" hosting company offers