> So we're in the price war stage still, not much at the differentiation stage. Depends what you're looking for I suppose. If all you need is basic compute in

> So we're in the price war stage still, not much at the differentiation stage. Depends what you're looking for I suppose. If all you need is basic compute instances then, yes, it's a price war. Any products beyond that have a tenuous relationship between the different providers. Even something as simple as using a columnar DB pretty much locks you into one of the providers because you have to build around all the nuances of SQL Server vs. RedShift (Postgres) vs. BigQuery. Forget talking about things like infrastructure automation once you're trying to manage this on demand across many environments in a reproducible way.