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It's only lock-in of you've tied yourself to AWS only features. If you just use EC2 as VMs, then switching is pretty easy.
by dflock 9y ago
It's only lock-in of you've tied yourself to AWS only features. If you just use EC2 as VMs, then switching is pretty easy.
- solatic 9y agoYeah but few people do that because building massive infrastructure on top of EC2 instead of using Amazon's managed alternatives is a great way to lose money, not just on the AWS bill itself but also on needless additional work for your architects. Defeating vendor lock-in requires the development of sound cloud-resource primitives, and probably some regulation on part of government to not pay egress costs when switching to a competitor (since the high cost of moving your data to another cloud is anti-competitive). But nobody has come up with decent primitives because, you know, if AmaGooSoft don't need multi-cloud architectures for high availability, then why do you think you do? And government won't step in because none of the regulators understand how any of this works.