It's interesting and brings up a yet-another-interesting consideration which is more broadly what is the "best" place to couple your applications/services to yo

It's interesting and brings up a yet-another-interesting consideration which is more broadly what is the "best" place to couple your applications/services to your provider... I suppose that's why I like containerization so much, because it decouples them fairly maximally from any kind of service provider (all you need is a network connection and some CPU to run them by, to sort of misquote something I heard once upon a time). You retain a lot of control with containerization, but without the overhead of a fully virtualized environment. It keeps time and money costs down, too, not having to couple into all those various AWS (or whatever) services. And I like being decoupled from those kinds of service providers because it also reduces the surface area of skills which are only useful with that service provider. Decouples expertise from a single point of failure, which is really important for me personally.