> Sure, you can play FUD games about AWS suddenly raising prices, but I doubt you'd have any historical evidence to back that up. So you'd better be able to say

> Sure, you can play FUD games about AWS suddenly raising prices, but I doubt you'd have any historical evidence to back that up. So you'd better be able to say why being cloud-agnostic is critical to your business. I'm not sure if you're being serious here. It's not about rising prices but making your business completely dependent on another entity and losing any options you might otherwise have. As for past data, history is rife with stories of companies who made the mistake of trusting a big player their technology will be around forever. So many have invested in technologies like Flash because they were 100% sure they will be there forever. If I was in charge of AWS, I would avoid sudden price increases, but instead focused on many new features and small charges. These look insignificant, "This is just 20 buck per TB, less than our spending on toilet paper." And then these slowly accumulate and the TCO is getting higher and higher, and again some new* smart features lure you - again, at a small cost. In the end, it turns out you can't leave even if you want. *Or just your old open source library/framework repainted in AWS colors.