I think what most people miss for these and similar services is you’re paying for really good, on call, white glove Elastic support. In my experience they can often go as for as to replace having a search specific ops team. The cloud hosting isn’t really where the value is.

I looked at the price of a Tesla the other day and thought it was too expensive.

doesn’t really say much, I could be in a bad financial position, Tesla could be expensive or I have a different preference to spending my money or I don’t love the environment enough ;)

Same feeling...