So your company cautiously chooses which services in AWS to use, and sticks to infrastructure offerings for now. Netflix called it "paved path", and it worked really well too for Netflix. Over the years, though, the "paved path" expanded and extended to more services. It's worth noting that EC2 alone is a huge productivity booster, bar none. Nothing beats setting up a cluster of machines, with a few clicks, that auto scales per dynamic scaling policies. In contrast, Uber couldn't do this for at least 5 years, and their docker-based cluster system is a crippled for not supporting the damn persistent volumes. God knows how much productivity was lost because of the bogus reasons Uber had for not going to cloud.