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I'm in agreement with mpdehaan2 here. By sticking with a single cloud provider you get a lot of benefits. One of the more major benefits is cost, as you can do

I'm in agreement with mpdehaan2 here. By sticking with a single cloud provider you get a lot of benefits. One of the more major benefits is cost, as you can do things like reserved instance in EC2. Another major benefit of sticking with a single provider is that you get to use solutions that only that provider has, which in this case is KMS, DynamoDB and IAM. The biggest downside of being cloud agnostic is that you're stuck with the smallest combination of features that all of the clouds provide.

normanjoyner 11y ago
It seems like Confidant can and will be great for customers using AWS, and frankly it's nice to see open source projects built using AWS services, but is not a complete black box (like many AWS services themselves). I also totally agree that utilizing the tools provided by your hosting provider can be majorly beneficial; however, I think that sometimes teams employ hacky solutions so they can use a hosted service from AWS (or similar), in which case they end up with technical debt and the inability to change directions in the future. As you said, until tools exist that offer operability between clouds, users will be stuck with the smallest combination of tools. I do however believe such a day is coming.