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> Additionally once you are on AWS you are pretty much locked into AWS by the way (as you describe) things are setup. I am not convinced that at a time in the f

> Additionally once you are on AWS you are pretty much locked into AWS by the way (as you describe) things are setup. I am not convinced that at a time in the future AWS will not change their pricing to take advantage of the lock that they have (even though now they continually drop prices). Or add extra fees or whatever. This is just FUD. AWS prices are always lowering, there is never a time they have increased. Even if they increased their prices, Google, Rackspace and Microsoft would eat their lunch. There is plenty of competition in the computing space. > Being in business so many years I have seen this happen and changing from AWS will be near impossible. (In other words for people on AWS such as you describe there is no easy alternative competition for a system once designed and specific to AWS in the way you detail). If your solutions are so narrowly defined that they won't run on anything else than AWS, then you are doing it wrong. You might run on specific AWS services, but there should be no reason why someone could not recreate their solutions over on Google Compute or other services. Yes, you might have to rework some of your solutions, but it should be very doable.

takeda 10y ago
> This is just FUD. AWS prices are always lowering, there is never a time they have increased. Even if they increased their prices, Google, Rackspace and Microsoft would eat their lunch. There is plenty of competition in the computing space. The prices are lowered, but AWS is also continuously introducing new more powerful instance types and deprecates older ones. > If your solutions are so narrowly defined that they won't run on anything else than AWS, then you are doing it wrong. You might run on specific AWS services, but there should be no reason why someone could not recreate their solutions over on Google Compute or other services. AWS has many solutions that are different than you are used to. For example there is no NFS (well there is EFS which supposed to be similar, but it's still in preview for at least a year now). You're forced to improvise, and use their solutions. Typically S3, which is not exactly 1:1 alternative to NFS, so you'll need to improvise and rework your applications to that model. If you want to move to something else, you no longer will have these services available. > Yes, you might have to rework some of your solutions, but it should be very doable. Exactly, that's what's pointed out. You'll have to rewrite your applications. There's no lock in that can't be solved by rewriting. The problem is that the rewrite might be quite expensive.

takeda 10y ago

> This is just FUD. AWS prices are always lowering, there is never a time they have increased. Even if they increased their prices, Google, Rackspace and Microsoft would eat their lunch. There is plenty of competition in the computing space. The prices are lowered, but AWS is also continuously introducing new more powerful instance types and deprecates older ones. > If your solutions are so narrowly defined that they won't run on anything else than AWS, then you are doing it wrong. You might run on specific AWS services, but there should be no reason why someone could not recreate their solutions over on Google Compute or other services. AWS has many solutions that are different than you are used to. For example there is no NFS (well there is EFS which supposed to be similar, but it's still in preview for at least a year now). You're forced to improvise, and use their solutions. Typically S3, which is not exactly 1:1 alternative to NFS, so you'll need to improvise and rework your applications to that model. If you want to move to something else, you no longer will have these services available. > Yes, you might have to rework some of your solutions, but it should be very doable. Exactly, that's what's pointed out. You'll have to rewrite your applications. There's no lock in that can't be solved by rewriting. The problem is that the rewrite might be quite expensive.