> what reason would one have to buy vs. build yourself
I dunno--AWS's could be better without spending effort on it? The same way every other cloud provider incentivizes using their managed services?
Don't get me wrong--a number of managed AWS services are very good. RDS is, even, for a lot of use cases. But AWS forces you to consider cost versus quality when you fall in the RDS gaps, and that's a shitty way to do business. AWS relies on being the only network transit provider in town to incentivize continued use of horizontally related offerings.
This is literal anti-competitive behavior, just as browser bundling was for Microsoft. Like that's the definition of it.
I dunno--AWS's could be better without spending effort on it? The same way every other cloud provider incentivizes using their managed services?
Don't get me wrong--a number of managed AWS services are very good. RDS is, even, for a lot of use cases. But AWS forces you to consider cost versus quality when you fall in the RDS gaps, and that's a shitty way to do business. AWS relies on being the only network transit provider in town to incentivize continued use of horizontally related offerings.
This is literal anti-competitive behavior, just as browser bundling was for Microsoft. Like that's the definition of it.