Couldn I just use Amazon Web Services and bypass SpatialCloud services?
Yes, since the system is based on Amazon Web Services. However, the developers who engineered SpatialCloud and have already figured out all of the issues needed to utilize Amazon Web Services for geospatial data hosting. Plus, for you to host the large amount of updated content SpatialCloud is on your behalf, it would cost you a significant sum. In addition, they canned all of this into an intuitive and easy to use administrative portal which makes handling data the easy part. Isn’t this worth the reasonable rates SpatialCloud charges? SpatialCloud saves you time and effort, and allows you focus on your mapping applications, not data management.