> as long as you use cloud agnostic stuff and avoid AWS specific services That is a big tradeoff, and it's not something obvious. If being banned from AWS is a

> as long as you use cloud agnostic stuff and avoid AWS specific services That is a big tradeoff, and it's not something obvious. If being banned from AWS is an important and relatively big risk for your business, sure, go for it. But if not, then those AWS-specific services are exactly where you get all those productivity gains from, and where AWS (and GCP for that matter) shines in comparison to smaller ones, like DO or Linode, or on-premises.