AWS needs a dedicated AWS engineer while any technical person and some non-technical people have skill to set up Cloudflare. Esp. Without surprise bills.

I always hear this, but honestly I'm not sure it's true.

It's hard to assess the validity of this versus Cloudflare having a really good marketing department.

I've used neither, so I can't say, but I've also never seen anyone truly explain why/why-not.

Why not use both and find out? Cloudflare is much less technical than AWS, but still a bit technical.

I thought the whole point of paying a fortune for AWS was to avoid having a dedicated engineer. It’s the cobol of the 21st century.