I think that's what he is saying. And yes it is an ultimate lock in. That's what I believe things like lambda are best for creating desired infrastructure, e.g.

I think that's what he is saying. And yes it is an ultimate lock in. That's what I believe things like lambda are best for creating desired infrastructure, e.g. common ground, so provisioned VMs after bootstrapping might behave the same whether they are in aws, gce or on premises.