We have infrastructure at a number of cloud and bare metal providers, and I have my own personal applications running on several others for evaluation. In the

We have infrastructure at a number of cloud and bare metal providers, and I have my own personal applications running on several others for evaluation. In the decade or so since I started moving applications to the cloud, I’ve found AWS one of the easiest to migrate away from—and that’s what keeps us there. We’re constantly streaming our data to other providers who won’t let us export easily (or make it even more expensive than AWS). If we need to fail over, we can—while we do use AWS APIs, it’s not that hard to switch our code over to use a different API; we’ve done it plenty of times before. If what you’re describing were to actually happen, or if we suspected that it was about to happen, we’d be moving away from AWS with the flick of a switch. While I doubt most of their customers would be able to do that with so little difficulty, I’m sure a lot of people would think twice about throwing more money at an expensive cloud. We’re paying for the versatility without the need to manage bare metal ourselves; it’s worth the money only so long as that versatility and interoperability remains intact.