On the contrary, every time someone comes to me with a suggestion to build something in-house or use an open source solution when a aws service exists I say the

On the contrary, every time someone comes to me with a suggestion to build something in-house or use an open source solution when a aws service exists I say the hell with that. I don't want to maintain it, build features into it or operate it. I want full in vendor lock-in, it saves an immense amount of time. You just need to pick a vendor that gives a shit about it's customers to be locked in to - and that's simply not google.