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There are huge discounts available. You don’t get them by moving, you get them because you’re not locked in
by paulsutter 5y ago
There are huge discounts available. You don’t get them by moving, you get them because you’re not locked in
- simonh 5y agoEvery now and then you need to stand up a completely new system, or replace an existing system. At those times you get to pick what platform you will build it on, and Amazon wants you to pick AWS. Therefore AWS needs to be competitive. In the vast majority of cases that decision really isn't going to be influenced by whether your existing system on AWS does or doesn't use Amazon specific tech. If you're "moving" your service from AWS to Azure those kinds of implementation details just don't matter, in most cases you're effectively going to build a replacement system and not really migrate an existing one. The costs of such a migration would in most cases dwarf any possible savings, no matter how carefully you tried to avoid lock-in. I'm obviously generalising a fair bit, but the exceptions are likely to be less complex systems that are perfectly fine using fairly generic services.