To quote from the interview, verbatim, "Sure, it would be nice to have a competitive environment with different providers you can switch between. But that is se

To quote from the interview, verbatim, "Sure, it would be nice to have a competitive environment with different providers you can switch between. But that is secondary to usefulness and functionality, because companies are in competition with each other anyway. And the chance of getting the actual providers to agree is pretty close to zero. Everybody goes: “Well, we’re going to differentiate on this or that.” The one exception, of course, being how everybody seems to have come together around containers. So now everybody’s excited about containers, but the battle’s shifted up. So you’ve won the battle, but lost the war." The interviewee here manages to make a Santayana mistake without realizing it; eventually, just as containers standardized, serverless functions will standardize, and cloud vendors will either conform or marginalize their offerings in response.