10 years ago developers and ops people were a lot more concerned about being locked into proprietary products especially to the sort of level of integration AWS

10 years ago developers and ops people were a lot more concerned about being locked into proprietary products especially to the sort of level of integration AWS brings. Eventually I suspect Amazon will be all but required to chase the money and at that point a lot of companies will really struggle to get off it. OS/360 is still going, still charging a fortune for a mainframe.