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I've always felt that the business model is nickel & diming for things like storage/bandwidth and locking in customers with value-add black box services that you can't easily replace with open source solutions.

Just took a random server: https://instances.vantage.sh/aws/ec2/m5d.8xlarge?duration=mo... - to get a decent price on it you need to commit to three years at $570 per month(no storage or bandwidth included). Over the course of 3 years that's $20520 for a server that's ~10K to buy outright, and even with colo costs over the same time frame you'll spend a lot less, so not exactly crushing those margins to dust.