Thanks for the detailed reply! It's been fun engaging with you. You have really hit the nail on the head about risk, and what it means to go "all-in" on a part

Thanks for the detailed reply! It's been fun engaging with you. You have really hit the nail on the head about risk, and what it means to go "all-in" on a particular provider. There's a very relevant case to be made for electing to remain provider agnostic if your business is sensitive to outages. There is a balance between avoiding administrative overhead and mitigating risk. I like to think about it like buying insurance (I'd put security posture in the same bucket, too). Pursuing a cloud-agnostic design has some cost per month. A cloud vendor outage has some chance of happening per month, and if it does occur it will cost you $X. The business needs to figure out when: cost(cloud-agnostic design) < risk(cloud vendor outage) * cost(cloud vendor outage) Figuring that out isn't trivial, especially because a large part of cost(cloud-agnostic design) will be in employee hours. At best you probably get a ballpark estimate.