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I never understand the constant railing about "lock-in" here. My company currently runs on AWS and GCE, and maybe will be using a 3rd in the future. We can move
by res0nat0r 8y ago
I never understand the constant railing about "lock-in" here. My company currently runs on AWS and GCE, and maybe will be using a 3rd in the future. We can move between any provider as long as we update our tooling to work with cloud provider specifics. IE security group differences between AWS and GCE, etc.
They aren't doing anything to block us from leaving, and anyone here thinking there is going to be some kind of 100% unified API between every cloud provider is out of touch with reality, if that is what their expectation of "no vendor lock-in" is.
- necubi 8y agoThe real lock-in comes from using proprietary, cloud-specific services like Kinesis, Dynamo, or Spanner.
- res0nat0r 8y agoSure, but there isn't a gun to your head. Use mysql or postgres on each provider if you're worried about that.
- jbigelow76 8y agoThe current trope I see going around is that lock in centers (almost) 100% around identity management and access control, if you control that, you control your customer’s destiny. You can move a key value store anywhere on a whim.
- pdelgallego 8y agoEven just using IAM to grant permissions is going across those services is going to lock you in.