$20k&#x2F;month is $240k&#x2F;year, which is at least two developer salaries.  Do you really need two full time devops&#x2F;whatever to manage the open source equivalents to the AWS services?<p>Aren&#x27;t there tools that can provide a similarly high level&#x2F;seamless&#x2F;polished experience running on your own computer, using your choice of cloud provider as the backend?  If not, why not?<p>(I wouldn&#x27;t know - I don&#x27;t even run a website, and if I did, I would avoid the locked-in services like the plague, out of principle.  But I&#x27;m curious.)