> In other words, your CTO and the devs have to look at your future product roadmap and see which features would require extra developer costs in re-inventing a

> In other words, your CTO and the devs have to look at your future product roadmap and see which features would require extra developer costs in re-inventing aspects of AWS/Azure that may negate the cost savings of a "dumb" IaaS like Hetzner. If there are actual development costs from moving from Azure to dedicated servers then they've already coupled to Azure and at a very early stage. The point of giving credits paid for for Microsoft. It would also seem they've unknowningly coupled too which should be worrying. I would be very worried about a CTO who unknowningly coupled to anything.