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Could you give examples where vendor lock in becomes a problem? Ideally something practical (as opposed to theoretical) or something from personal experience.
by thih9 6y ago
Could you give examples where vendor lock in becomes a problem?
Ideally something practical (as opposed to theoretical) or something from personal experience.
I generally agree but I feel that more details could be useful.
- ssss11 6y agoAny time you want to leave that vendor. If they up their prices greatly, reduce service levels, refuse to give attention to improving service levels.. break a clause in the contract... an so on.
- rpadovani 6y agoWhile this is true in theory, I don't recall a single instance of AWS increasing pricing or reducing service levels - not saying that is impossible, but it hasn't happened so far (at least that I remember)
- rat9988 6y agoWhen you deal with google cloud and they up their price. Didn't see it with the other vendors though.
- speedgoose 6y agoIt's simple, you are not stuck with a vendor. A practical example that happened to my employer recently : we migrated to Microsoft Azure when they opened two datacenters in our country. We didn't have to change any code because we don't use vendor locked solutions.