[troupo]

My feeling is that a more apt comparison would be "cooking yourself vs. ordering Doordash all the time" (aka "a taxi for your burrito)

[raverbashing]

Yes

Getting a chef would be hiring your own devops team

But the point of AWS is that you can buy these services with very fine granularity

[hshdhdhj4444]

Sure, that might be a more appropriate comparison.

The key point is that being aware of the cost trade off is useful.