Back on topic, I'd hope all of us would expect value for money for any and all services we recommend or purchase. Search for "site:news.ycombinator.com Away From AWS" to find dozens of discussions on how to save money by leaving AWS.
EDIT: just one article of the many I've read recently:
"What I’ve always found surprising about egress is just how expensive it is. On AWS, downloading a file from S3 to your computer once costs 4 times more than storing it for an entire month"
