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It's not just having money to burn really, if you can save even 20% of a single engineer's productivity, you've saved like $10-20K/year (depending on how well you're paying). Simple value prop if you're a company.
Yes, but you're not saving anything if your use case is a single server you throw software on a la classic sysadmin. The value prop makes more sense when you start throwing all of the other managed services on top.
Mostly agree. Can maybe make a case even for just EC2: you can make it significantly easier for people to setup isolated dev environments for example ("just spawn more instances!"), vs. having to manage a shared deployment somewhere.
I think we're also kind of lucky in Europe to have such a thriving market of large baremetal hosting providers (Online, OVH, Hetzner, ...). The culture seems different in the US, maybe because the pricing is less enthusiast friendly.
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