> If you've got 250 engineers then the AWS is going to be fairly predictable and well monitored. This is the very first time I hear anyone describe AWS service

> If you've got 250 engineers then the AWS is going to be fairly predictable and well monitored. This is the very first time I hear anyone describe AWS services as "fairly predictable and well monitored", because there is simply no such thing. There are professional services being sold at a premium whose value proposition is to make sense of AWS billing and reign it in. With AWS, your company simply sets a budget with a significant slack and hope for the best. > Dropbox is memorable because they migrated off which says what many other companies don't do. Not true. Dropbox is memorable because it was depicted as a poster child of AWS, which ultimately found out it was not worth it at all. And Dropbox is not alone. https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2016/03/16/moving-away-from-aws-cloud-dropbox-isnt-an-anomaly-and-heres-why https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2016/03/16/movi... https://www.uscloud.com/blog/3-reasons-33-companies-ditching-aws-azure/ https://www.uscloud.com/blog/3-reasons-33-companies-ditching...