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But that's only really a change when you come from commodity hardware. For those still on mainframes, what's the difference? Technically the hardware might be c
by usrusr 4y ago
But that's only really a change when you come from commodity hardware. For those still on mainframes, what's the difference? Technically the hardware might be charged per replacement cycle instead of monthly, but vendors are just as empowered to demand whatever they want. It's certainly hard to avoid lock-in running stuff on a cloud provider, but I suspect that it is even harder when depending on ye olde mainframe.
- kragen 4y agoI agree, mainframes are almost as bad.
- yarky 4y agoI agree, isn't it way easier to switch vendors when running on the cloud? I'd say that encourages competition, since we can literally move the infrastructure using keystrokes instead of muscles. This makes me think computer infra could potentially become a commodity.
- bad416f1f5a2 4y agoAs always, it depends on how you use it. Most cloud providers do let you run your own software on a managed substrate of infrastructure. But they also let you, nay, encourage you to build on top of their abstractions instead.
- usrusr 4y agoI guess you can waste a lot of effort and money on meticulously substituting "batteries included" lock-in features of your cloud provider when the easy path would in fact have been much cheaper (substitute when needed, not prematurely), just as much as you can fall victim to lock-in traps that would have been super cheap and easy to avoid. I imagine that telling one from the other is a form of art in its own right.