Of course. However, you don't need someone to provision and monitor power, connectivity, datacenter security, and all the responsibilities AWS absolutely prices in for you. You also substantially reduce your effort and cost toward capacity planning and managing depreciation. You pay for consumption of _all the things_ required to operate compute infrastructure, plus their margin.
There are certainly companies and problems for which colocating still makes more sense than the cloud but 9 out of 10 of these articles completely gloss over most of the costs. This article is one of them.
There are certainly companies and problems for which colocating still makes more sense than the cloud but 9 out of 10 of these articles completely gloss over most of the costs. This article is one of them.