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No, almost no-one needs any of that. The depressing amount of money that goes to AWS for little reason but 'because it's the safe choice and everyone does it' is pretty amazing. In tech/programming we often say 'use the right tool for the job' and yet everyone reaches for the hammer that is AWS when hosting is mentioned.

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Every company I've worked for in the last ten years has needed all of the above, and I like to work for small companies (fewer than 100 people). Only in the last couple of years have I had any interest or need to branch out to the other clouds, largely because they're doing specific things really well.

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