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>if it’s truly a commodity product Cloud is not a commodity product. Commodities are easily interchangable. For the most part, a banana is a banana, a pound
by dralley 5y ago
>if it’s truly a commodity product
Cloud is not a commodity product. Commodities are easily interchangable. For the most part, a banana is a banana, a pound of corn is a pound of corn, a ton of steel is a ton of steel. There can be quality variations of course, but at any given level of quality there are still multiple suppliers, and the costs of switching between them are fairly low.
That is not true of the cloud. Every cloud is unique in their own special snowflake ways, the APIs are often fairly different, the switching costs are high and there is a small number of suppliers.
- immibis 5y agoThey are mostly interchangeable. They all store data; they all run Linux VMs. Switching costs are high though. It's surprising that vendors make their custom cloud features (e.g. SQS) more expensive than running the same thing yourself - because those have the most vendor lock-in.
- rodgerd 5y agoCloud is like changing cars, if changing cars meant that a Toyota had pedals and a steering wheel but a Mercedes had a joystick and a throttle lever.