It's not a "lock in", not more than deciding to use MySQL or any other product. Please call that a design choice or a partnership. You want to get out, you dow

It's not a "lock in", not more than deciding to use MySQL or any other product. Please call that a design choice or a partnership. You want to get out, you download your database data and move back to AWS pixie dust or self-hosted pixie dust. Most services are pretty standard, it's not magic. There are comparable equivalents. The most advanced capabilities will only come with commercial products that are a million dollars (EMC, VmWare, F5, Akamai). P.S. MySQL got took over by Oracle. Nothing is forever ;)