> Why is it stupid, dangerous and short sighted? People say those things about cloud vendor locking like it's a obvious truth It depends on the relationship yo

> Why is it stupid, dangerous and short sighted? People say those things about cloud vendor locking like it's a obvious truth It depends on the relationship you have with these cloud vendors. If it is a custom contract , with penalties if the host screws up , then by all means, lock yourself in as much as you like. But most clients aren't in any position to negotiate with Amazon. Worse, a well known vendors doesn't hesitate to shut down paid accounts without notice. Imagine your business depends on a specific component of that vendor's stack ... you are screwed. > The primitives and constraints imposed by a cloud provider often make your life easier even if you migrate to bare metal or another cloud. Provided you can "migrate" to something else at first place. Look at all these sorry folks building their "serverless architecture" on Amazon. They depend entirely on Amazon services and SDK. There is no migration path to something else.