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> GCE and AWS provide hugely useful foundational IaaS, but they're incentivized to move beyond that layer and provide more custom solutions that ... lock you in
by speedplane 9y ago
> GCE and AWS provide hugely useful foundational IaaS, but they're incentivized to move beyond that layer and provide more custom solutions that ... lock you into their services.
To Google's credit, they are actually moving to a more open cloud environment. They started with Google App Engine, which definitely had lock-in with it's own custom API. But now they are pushing container services and kubernetes, which are really easy to move to other clouds or run on your own servers.