It isn't 1992 anymore, people don't "tinker", they have orchestration in 2023.
The orchestration tools for self-hosted are cheaper, more standard and more reliable. (Because Amazon's and Google's stuff is actually built on top of standard stacks, except with extra corporate stupidity added.)
Regardless of whether you use something industry standard or something proprietary, you will need to have an ops team that knows orchestration. (And an AWS orchestration team will be more expensive, because, again, their stuff is non-standard and proprietary.)
There are reasons for using AWS, but cost or time to market is never one of them.
It isn't 1992 anymore, people don't "tinker", they have orchestration in 2023.
The orchestration tools for self-hosted are cheaper, more standard and more reliable. (Because Amazon's and Google's stuff is actually built on top of standard stacks, except with extra corporate stupidity added.)
Regardless of whether you use something industry standard or something proprietary, you will need to have an ops team that knows orchestration. (And an AWS orchestration team will be more expensive, because, again, their stuff is non-standard and proprietary.)
There are reasons for using AWS, but cost or time to market is never one of them.