> But how will the cloud providers avoid these trends? Innovations are more likely to happen if it is someones priority to fix a certain thing. I think they ho

> But how will the cloud providers avoid these trends? Innovations are more likely to happen if it is someones priority to fix a certain thing. I think they hope that savings from innovation and better methods at what ever company they hire out to are passed onto them. It is naive if they are unable to change clouds though that they will see these savings and as long as one relies on vendor specific features on is in that position.