This could be an interesting comparison. My experience with AWS is that it was super easy and cheap to start on. By the time we could use whole servers we were using so much AWS orchestration that it's going to be put off until we are at least $1M ARR, and probably til we are at $5M.

Make adoption easy, give a free base tier but charge more could be a very effective model to get start ups stuck on you. It even probably makes adoption by small teams in big companies possible that can then grow ...