[gfarah]

Companies (even small startups) working in regulated spaces can benefit from using the public cloud for the compliance aspect. More than once I've had a regulator ask me for X or Y security certifications, very easy to point to the list that ECS has, much harder to do if running on IaaS or in bare metal.

[fibonacc]

exactly, yes you have to pay the piper but there are real contractual liability shift away from the operator by going with aws