> You could choose to build out your system to be completely cloud agnostic but that is generally regarded to be economically irresponsible [...]. I don't see

> You could choose to build out your system to be completely cloud agnostic but that is generally regarded to be economically irresponsible [...]. I don't see it being anywhere near that clear-cut. Seems more akin to what the RDBMS world went through for a long time, and still does, because people insist on using things other than Postgres[1]. You can stay SQL-standard compliant, writing your app to be portable. Or you can use these appealing proprietary extensions to the spec, and not be portable. Seems like a majority of folks writing in-house choose to use the extensions, and the majority of folks who want others to use their software make an effort to be cross platform. You'll probably see a similar split with cloud services, although I'm not sure it will necessarily follow the same lines. [1] That's a joke, there.