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> I'm paying thousands of dollars a year for AWS when it seems to me I could just buy a computer and a couple solid state drives, and host locally.

What happens when:

- there's a power outage?

- you trip the cable?

- a hardware failure occurs?

- your local ISP's IP is blocked or banned and you have no control over it?

- you have limited upload / download where you are (depends on country)

- your Internet is out or just fails to Cloudflare

And many more...

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Not to mention meteorites

In a word --- reliability.

Self hosting introduces multiple failure modes making it difficult to achieve redundancy and uptime comparable to purpose built and professionally managed cloud infrastructure.

Downtime can be a serious blow to many startups. And the more important the service is, the less tolerance clients/customers have for it. For any sort of *business* service, you probably risk losing more than you stand to gain.

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