ELI5: Why the absolute hell did SE not use Azure or AWS as a temporary solution?

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I'm just mentally frazzled after over 7 hours of trying to login now and I can't for the life of me understand why they would turn down and/or not use AWS or Azure as a temporary solution.

Is it pride? Is it not a possibility?

I just see a scenario where a company wouldn't use all available resources to assist their customers and maintain the positive image their brand and game had going into EW's launch.

Your sub is 15 dollars a month because of that.
But if you and every other customer are okay with paying 50 dollars a month instead then I'm sure they can look into it.