On top of that there are probably a few more hits for the containers, vm and hypervisor, all those pods have monitoring etc. All the layers of abstraction are just stacks of turtles giving the illusion of being easier but adding complexity and cost/overhead.

It is a security product, so unless they want to deal with the exfiltration charges on the data it's probably better to keep it in AWS. Thats the nasty double edge sword of "cloud", and how we're all getting locked in.

All the bits on their own seem to make perfect sense, but it's become apparent that the orchestra has been blind folded and given noise canceling head phones.