Right? I'm surprised at how many of the comments here seem to be about using AWS for hobby-scale stuff... I keep a Digital Ocean VPS for my personal website and OpenVPN AS and stuff like that, but anything I'm deploying for work on AWS is... either totally transient (I just need compute and enough working space to store the code I'm executing) or critically important (local storage is not sufficient, I need redundancy and shared state and lots of 9s). I can't think of many commercial use cases outside of prototypes where you'd want a bundle of compute + storage all on the same hardware.

Its like we stopped the "cattle vs pets" metaphor a bit early and some people are mad that a butcher is selling steak instead of a whole cow.

(And just for the record, my team has pretty minimal AWS usage... we're not one of the cloud kool-aid shops. We buy overflow worker server capacity on EC2 spot instances, but our primary app stack runs completely on colo'd bare metal for our day to day operations. Even on our bare metal though... individual app/worker servers are disposable and persistence is provided elsewhere)