If you&#x27;re just using AWS for EC2 then you&#x27;re probably better off with another provider, but I think the key advantage AWS has is in the &#x27;WS&#x27; part of their name.<p>Cloudwatch, SQS, SNS, Dynamo, S3 etc offer good managed services that you can plug into your applications&#x2F;systems with not that much effort - and crucially very little OPS needed.