> The reason isn't the spit, it's to prevent being so locked in that the provider can rent seek; As a minor pedantry, your cloud provider cannot "rent seek" ju

> The reason isn't the spit, it's to prevent being so locked in that the provider can rent seek; As a minor pedantry, your cloud provider cannot "rent seek" just because you stepped into a vendor lock-in situation, that's not what the phrase "rent seeking" means. An example of actual rent seeking would be if US government legally required you to use AWS if you were doing business in some highly regulated sector. Being locked in particular vendor offering is definitely not a great situation, and the vendor can most definitely use the leverage to their own profit, it's just this is not rent-seeking.