Not to mention that I can: - Create a bucket and store 1MB in it without any overhead - Create 50 buckets with strong perimeters around them such that someone deleting the entire account doesn’t bring down the other 49 - Create a bucket and fill it with terabytes of data within seconds and don’t need to wait for hardware to be racked and stacked - Create a bucket, fill it with 2TB of data, and delete it tomorrow

Cloud is more than bare metal, but plenty of folks discount the cost benefits of elasticity.