[bushbaba]

Accept they also provide the security, billing/invoicing, IaaC, support, provisioning, scaling, list goes on.

As for pay per server vs pay per usage. Heck you know Amazon actually bills the team who caused the cost. And gives finance a report on how much each team is spending and on what. Good luck doing that on prem.

[slt2021]

The question is how much do they give back to the open source community, after making boatloads of $$$ off of opensource contributions and whether their model is sustainable and healthy for the FOSS movement