I recently inherited a product that was developed from the ground up on AWS. It's been a real eye opener. Yes, it absolutely is locked in, and will never run o

I recently inherited a product that was developed from the ground up on AWS. It's been a real eye opener. Yes, it absolutely is locked in, and will never run on anything but AWS. That doesn't surprise me. What surprises me is all of the unnecessary complexity. It's one big Rube Goldberg contraption, stringing together different AWS products, with a great deal of "tool in search of problem" syndrome for good measure. I am pretty sure that, in at least a few spots, the glue code used to plug into Amazon XYZ amounted to a greater development and maintenance burden than a homegrown module for solving the same problem would have been. NIH syndrome is certainly not any fun. But IH syndrome seems to be no better.